The phrase "currently poorly understood" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to describe something that is not well understood or known at the present time, but may be better understood in the future. For example, "The causes of the disease are currently poorly understood, but scientists are making progress towards a better understanding."
These health challenges are currently poorly understood, with most research focused on health facility data.
However, the mechanism of action of antimicrobial peptides is currently poorly understood.
In battery aging studies of cathode materials, the peaks become suppressed but the mechanism by which this occurs is currently poorly understood.
The new maps, which will have high spatial and temporal resolution, will illuminate the inner workings of cellular regions that are currently poorly understood.
Although thin beds are commonly identified in core and well logs, their origin, and consequently their stratigraphic significance is currently poorly understood.
Due to a lack of structural information, it is currently poorly understood how ciliopathic mutations affect protein functionality to give rise to the underlying disease.
The insights gained aid identification and understanding of those parts of a multi-actor spatial planning system that are currently poorly understood and poorly represented by the agents.
The mechanism by which this highly stable enzyme misfolds to form non-amyloid aggregates is currently poorly understood, as are the stresses that initiate misfolding.
However, critical compressive stress is currently poorly understood.
The brain contains large amount of cholesterol, but the cholesterol metabolism and its complex homeostasis regulation are currently poorly understood.
But defects in graphene - where the perfect sheets of carbon are buckled or include other atoms - are currently poorly understood.
