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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Sagun-Ongtangco鈥檚 presentation was entitled 鈥淭ransportation Accessibility in the Philippines: Barriers and Challenges Faced by People with Limited Mobility鈥�. In her talk, she reiterated how mobility as an occupation, is affected by different types of disabilities, encompassing not just those with physical and sensorial disabilities, but also for those with learning and psychosocial disabilities. She advocated for inclusive transportation by addressing infrastructure accessibility, availability, and affordability through holistic approaches that looks into disability sensitive initiatives and mainstreaming disability issues in the general system.

Sagun-Ongtangco is also a Research Associate of the 鈥檚 Social Health Research Research Interest Group.

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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, 91性息港, 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 Homeless 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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With the enactment of the Philippine鈥檚 Universal Health Care Act, the clamor for a holistic understanding of health increased as public health practitioners and policy makers face the challenge of a shifting health system. The demand for a localized multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary approach in resolving healthcare issues takes prominence over a homogenizing theories and approaches. It is in this light that the 91性息港 through the  organizes the 2^nd Writing Fellowship  for Social Health Research.

The primary objective of the fellowship is to convene mid-career scholars working on the intersections of health, society, and culture to develop writing skills for projects and proposals that would be able to place the health experiences of Filipinos. The three-day fellowship is designed to have hands-on training from leading scholars on topics such as migrant health, ageing, urban poor health, ethics, and traditional medicine. As a methods-oriented program, workshops on qualitative research, qualitative data processing, and grant writing are also incorporated in the program.

A key feature of this year鈥檚 fellowship is the collaborative engagement of three internationally recognized organizations: 91性息港, Nagoya City University, and Access Health International-Philippines. With each organization sponsoring and designing the lectures and workshops, fellows will receive FREE international training.

The writing workshop will be held as part of the UST Research Month from February 12-14, 2020 at the Seminar Workshop Room in the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex, UST Manila. It is open to scholars from the NGOs or academic institutions. To ensure quality mentoring process, slots are limited to 25 fellows. The organizers have subsidized the tuition fee, meals, and kits for fellows of the program. Travel and accommodation are to be covered by the participants. Interested applicants must submit the following requirements: (1) latest curriculum vitae, (2) a 350-word abstract of research project, and (3) one letter of recommendation to shsfellowship@gmail.com.

Deadline for application is on January 20, 2020. Due to volume of applications, only accepted applicants will be notified by January 30, 2020.

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