Date: August 29, 2019
Venue:MBC Seminar Room Philippine Social Science Center
Event: Research Ethics Review and Privacy
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Date: July 31, 2019 Venue: City-State Astorias Hotel Event: Palawan State University Faculty Conference
Date: July 24, 2019 Venue: University of the Philippines Baguio Event: Data Privacy Research Tool Validation
Date: July 3, 2019 Venue: Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand Event: AAS-in-Asia 2019
Paper Title: Achieving Well-Being in Manila’s Peripheries: Socio-Cultural Determinants of Health-Seeking Behavior of Children Living with Tuberculosis
Abstract
With urban populations increasing due to urban-centric development and with affordable housing remaining insufficient, a significant number of Filipino families have taken residence in informal settlements that are often situated in hazardous zones. Despite the ecological and health threats, children are forced into these circumstances by their dependence on their caregivers. The extent of their resilience and recovery from these threats are significantly determined by two contexts: the health-seeking behavior of their caregivers and the socio-economic roles that they are expected to perform as active contributors in their household’s subsistence. Looking into one of the Philippines’ top causes of children’s mortality, pediatric tuberculosis, this paper discusses the forms of vulnerability and resilience that these children and their households negotiate with. Drawing from Cultural Epidemiology, this work presents the illness and well-being narratives of children with tuberculosis in three of Manila’s largest informal settlements: Baseco Compound, Payatas, and Bagong Silang. Specifically, this work 1) identifies the socio-cultural activities that make children vulnerable to TB and 2) describes the household dynamics that define the health-seeking behavior of its members. Informed by these accounts of how families cope with the embodied effects of dispossession and structural violence, this work concludes by providing a critique of national development policies, which have continuously worked to deepen inequalities related to income and quality of life. Without a system that truly prioritizes the health, wellbeing, and education of all Filipino children, we can expect official promises of a more equitable and inclusive future to remain unfulfilled.
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Date: June 20, 2019 Venue: Palma Hall Room 400 Event: Data Privacy in Research Stakeholding Workshop
Date: November 8, 2018 Venue: Palawan State University Event: Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao 40th Conference
I have convened a panel for this 40th Conference of UGAT which will be held in Palawan State University. Our panel will be presenting on the afternoon of Day 1 (November 8). See conference updates here
Date: November 8, 2018 Venue: Palawan State University Event: Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao 40th Conference
I will be part of a panel honoring the works of Prof. James Eder.
Date: October 6, 2018 Venue: Siquijor State College Event: Philippine Sociological Society 2018 National Conference
I will be discussing the preliminary findings of our project on Tuberculosis and Children in Informal Settlements which is funded by DOST-PCHRD-NRCP. See the program here
Date: October 21, 22, 25 Venue: Holy Angel University, Clark, Pampangga Event: BIARI Philippines 2018 (Brown International Advanced Research Institute)
I will be speaking in three sessions for this event:
- The BIARI Experience (During the Socials event, October 21)
- BIARI and Beyond Session (will speak of Grants and other opportunities as a BIARI Alumna, October 22)
- Vulnerability in the context of exclusion from urban spaces (October 25)
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Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria 
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