According to Alejandria, 鈥渢he project is designed as a descriptive qualitative study which will primarily employ the anthropological methods of focused ethnography to document and map the socio-cultural contexts of mental health issues among university students. The participants of this study will be identified through the assistance of the research collaborators of participating private and state universities, whose locations are selected based on the cultural representations that could be generated due to a pluralistic demography. Apart from this, these locations have universities with established guidance and counselling programs.鈥�

Furthermore, Alejandria stated that the project鈥檚 key assertion is that 鈥渆fficient mental health intervention can only be drawn from a culturally relevant understanding of the lived experiences of the patients.鈥� The aim of the work is 鈥渢he development of patient-centered interventions that could have social, economic, and policy impacts.鈥� Among the tools to be used are 鈥渋nterviews, focus group discussions, and other processes available in focused ethnography.鈥� The project will cover Manila, as well as the provinces of Albay, Benguet, Palawan, Rizal, Leyte, and Davao.

Alejandria is the Research Interest Group Lead for Social Health Studies at the . Joining her in the team as co-leads are Simbahayan Community Development Office Director Froilan A. Alipao, MCD, Communications Bureau Assistant Director for Online Philippe Jose S. Hernandez, and Senior High School Humanities and Social Sciences Strand Chair Marie Antonette D. Quan.

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A total of thirty-two fellows from different heathcare and educational institutions in the Philippines, including the Philippine General Hospital, St. Luke鈥檚 Medical Center, Philippine Orthopedic Center, 探花精选, University of the Philippines–Diliman, Los Ba帽os, and Manila, De La Salle University, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde, Holy Angel University, University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, Inc., and Philippine Science High School, took part in the fellowship, with one fellow from the Universidad Nacional de Educaci贸n a Distancia).

This year鈥檚 Conveners were UST鈥檚 (who also introduced fellows to Social Health Research and conducted a demonstrated of the qualitative data analysis software MAXQDA), Nagoya City University鈥檚 Miki Enoki, PhD (who spoke about the case of Tibetan refugees in India), and Access Health International Founder Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III, who facilitated the workshop on 鈥淧ractical Understanding of the Landscape of Social Health Research.鈥�

Joining the conveners in introducing Social Health to fellows were: Carnegie Mellon University鈥檚 Noah Theriault, PhD (Principles of Collaborative Research for Social Justice); Nagoya City University鈥檚 Prof. Michiyo Higuchi (Migrant Health Issues) and Dr. Reginald Salonga (Healthcare for the 探花精选less People in Nagoya City, Japan and Training Workshop on Crafting Proposals for Grant-in-aids); Access Health International鈥檚 Dr. Emmanuel Yujuico (Doing Health Policy and Systems Research); National Research Council of the Philippines鈥檚 Dr. Isidro Sia (Research Opportunities in Traditional Health and Medicine); The Forum for Family Planning and Development, Inc.鈥檚 Chi Laigo Vallido, who spoke about the reproductive health law; and UST鈥檚 Dr. Florence Co-Navidad, who spoke about research ethics as applied to social health research.

Now on its second year, the fellowship aims to build a good number of researchers who will investigate the interplay of health, culture, and society. UST鈥檚 efforts in social health research are led by Alejandria, who is the Social Health Studies Research Interest Group Lead at the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education. With her in the team are , Assoc. Prof. Florence C. Navidad, EdD, Asst. Prof. Jay P. Jazul, MS, Asst. Prof. Carol Geraldine Pablo, MS, , Mr. Charles Bermejo, MSOT. In 2017, the group launched the Journal of Social Health, a biannual peer-reviewed open-access journal.

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The MoU stipulates the continued support, such as but not limited to materials, financial resources, and expertise, of UST for the projects of the Baseco community, which shall be subjected to regular assessments and evaluation for improvement purposes. Meanwhile, the Samahan commits to actively pursue the agreed-upon community development projects and liaise with UST on a regular basis.

The agreement will last until 2022. The MoU formalizes what has for years been sustained engagement between Alejandria and fellow Thomasians with the Baseco community, where community development projects such as education campaigns on tuberculosis, provision of clean water, and the maintenance of a community pharmacy, known as Klinika Tomas, have been sustained.

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Joining Jazul and Alejandria in the paper were , Mr. Solomon Sarne, Ms. Lora Kimberly Cabalbag and Ms. Edlynne Martinez.

The poster paper entitled: 鈥業nitial Assessment of the Information Education Campaign (IEC) Materials for Pediatric Tuberculosis in the selected informal urban community settlers鈥� is an interdisciplinary work of an anthropologists, pharmacists, medical technologists, nurse, sociologists and geographer. Responding to the need for prevention through education of tuberculosis in, the researchers focused on the areas of Baseco, Port Area, Manila; Payatas, Quezon City; and Bagong Silangan, Caloocan City. The purpose of the project was to formulate IEC materials for the caregivers of children living with tuberculosis in selected informal settlements in Manila, Quezon City and Caloocan City. Utilizing the Technology Acceptance Model and focus group discussions, the study proved that through the campaign, which utilized materials such as comic and calendars, knowledge of tuberculosis was increased, with a majority of caregivers in the community expressing confidence in using the materials.

The poster proposed an educational tool to disseminate information on the proper management of pediatric tuberculosis in community settings. The project was funded by the DOST 鈥� NRCP and by a research seed grant by the UST Office of the Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation (OVRRI).

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The book, which talked about the experiences of countries in the global south (usually referred to as third-world countries), tackled issues such as mortality, food insecurity, older adult migration, living arrangements and institutionalized care, income supports and security, and poverty, in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Nigeria, India, and the Philippines. The book argued that 鈥渁ging is steadily evolving as a public health and social crisis for which countries of the global south are ill-prepared.鈥� Alejandria said that countries鈥� problems are multi-faceted, as seen in lack of policies, or the presence of unimplemented / under-funded policies, as well as societal and cultural barriers.

To cite the case of the Philippines, Alejandria shared her extensive experience in working with families in the Baseco compound, where the elderly not only become carers for their grandchildren, but also income earners again. 鈥淔amilies can earn as little as 70 pesos (USD $1.37) a day in Baseco, which is an area that is plagued by health issues caused by lack of adequate sanitary infrastructure, like toilets and adequate plumbing.鈥� Alejandria said that these multi-faceted problems can and must be addressed through a multi-disciplinary approach and through a convergence of different societal sectors. 鈥淭he academe can help by researching and pointing out the problems, the experiences, and the realities, while the private sector will come in for funding and [bankrolling] the interventions. Of course, the government will come in when it comes to policies and even financial support.鈥�

The book, which was four years in the making, was the product of a fellowship that Alejandria attended at Brown University, along with her co-editors and writers. Among the contributors is Director , who co-wrote the introduction. As a contribution to literature on social health, 鈥渢his is the first book to bring together varied perspectives on the situation of older adults, and the challenges and opportunities that lie in developing innovative, sustainable programs to support elderly care services.鈥�

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The UST Journal Affairs Committee is headed by the UST Secretary-General Rev. Fr. Jes煤s Miranda, Jr., O.P., Ph.D. It is composed of the respective chief editors of the academic journals published by the various units of the University.

Through this committee, UST aims to intensify its support for the maintenance of these journals by bringing them together in a single official online portal, providing editors with technical and financial
assistance, guiding editors in maintaining quality assurance and professionalizing the respective editorial boards, among others. Now that the various UST academic journals are under one common platform, it will be easier for researchers to access content and information about the journals, specifically the respective submission and publication policies of each publication.

Moreover, featuring various academic journals from different disciplines is an indication of the University鈥檚 commitment to knowledge production and dissemination, as well as the recognition of the academic efforts of the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and health sciences.

One of the goals of the UJAC is the eventual adoption of a University Open Access (OA) Policy, through which all academic journals identified with UST will be published in Open Access platforms, which means that all published articles will be made freely available to the public The 鈥淯ST Journals Online Portal鈥� can be accessed through http://journals.ust. edu.ph.

The journals included in the online portal are: Acta Manilana, published by the Research Center for the Natural Sciences and edited by Prof. Emeritus Fortunato Sevilla, Ph.D; Antoninus Journal, published by the UST Graduate School and edited by Prof. Rey Donne Papa, Ph.D.; Asian Journal of English Language Studies published by the Department of English and edited by Asst. Prof. Veronico Tarrayo, Ph.D.; Hasaan published by the Department of Filipino and edited by Prof. Imelda De Castro, Ph.D. and Assoc. Prof. Zendel Rosario Taruc, Ph.D.; Journal of Medicine 探花精选 published by the Faculty of Medicine and edited by Prof. Raymond Rosales, M.D., Ph.D.; Journal of Social Health published by the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education and edited by Asst. Prof. Maria Carinnes Alejandria Gonzalez; Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy published by the Department of Philosophy and edited by Prof. Paolo Bola帽os, Ph.D.; Philipiniana Sacra published by the Ecclesiastical Faculties and edited by Rev. Fr. Jes煤s Miranda, Jr., O.P., Ph.D.; Philippine Journal of Allied Health Sciences, published by the College of Rehabilitation Sciences and edited by Mr. Ivan Neil Gomez; Tom谩s, published by the Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies and edited by Assoc. Prof. Ralph Semino Gal谩n; UNITAS, the 96-year-old international research journal published by the Department of Literature and edited by Prof. Maria Luisa Torres Reyes, Ph.D.

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