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Maria Carinnes Alejandria is an anthropologist who researches on issues relating to disaster and health inequalities in the Global South. Dr. Alejandria is an Assistant Professor at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. She completed her PhD in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines Diliman where she explored the nexus of flooding and food insecurity affecting older adults in an informal settlement in Manila. She is also affiliated with Brown University Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies as a Global Fellow, Loughborough University Institute of Advanced Studies as a Residential Fellow, the Social Weather Stations as a Fellow, Just Futures Collaborative as a Steering Committee member, and the Association for Asian Studies-Philippine Studies Group as an international advisory board member.

Her publications include the edited volumes Disaster Archipelago: Locating Vulnerability and Resilience in the Philippines and Aging in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities. She also published journal articles and co-edited Special Issues that explored topics on complex disasters, humanitarian coordination, food security, pediatric tuberculosis, mental health, and older adult health in the Philippines. Dr. Alejandria has led projects related to social health, disaster resilience, and food security that were funded by World Health Organization, Brown University, UNDP, UNAIDS, SEA Junction, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and agencies of the Philippine’s Department of Science and Technology.