Climate Change and Women’s Health in the SWANA Region
My lived experiences have positioned me to think about how climate change would further complicate the region of my ancestors, disrupting agriculture-dependent livelihoods and wellbeing, particularly of women. For my master's thesis, I am investigating the relationship between temperature and precipitation anomalies and women's health in Egypt and Jordan.
Climate change and women’s nutritional status in Egypt and Jordan
Mentor: Dr. Clark Gray
UNC Chapel Hill, Department of Geography & Environment
A growing body of literature has investigated the consequences of climate change and variability for population-level outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. These issues are of particular concern for women in the SWANA region, especially in conjunction with accelerating temperature extremes. Understanding the vulnerabilities of women in rural and urban areas of SWANA nations, mainly due to climate change, is largely understudied. To address this issue, we use 13 DHS surveys from Egypt and Jordan and district-level climate data in a fixed effects regression to investigate the consequences of temperature and precipitation anomalies for women's nutritional status.