Dr. Ma. Elena Chiong-Javier

Dr. Ma. Elena Chiong-Javier is a senior research fellow and past Director of SDRC and an associate professorial lecturer of the Department of Behavioral Sciences of the DLSU College of Liberal Arts. She obtained her Ph.D. in Community Development at the University of the Philippines-Los Baños, and specializes in anthropology and community development. She is a past president of the Philippine Sociological Society and has been gender adviser and trainor for the Women Leadership Learning Forum on Coastal and Marine Conservation (for DENR female middle managers) in the Partnership for Biodiversity Conservation 3 under the USAID and US Department of Interior-International Technical Assistance Program. Dr. Chiong-Javier currently heads the SDRC studies “Ethical Technology Assessment (eTA) of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) among GEN Z Population in the Pacific Region: The Case of the Philippines, Thailand, and Japan” and “Digitization and Digital Asset Management of Archival Materials in the History of Leprosy in the Philippines.” She has also led the studies “Agroforestry and Sustainable Vegetable Production in SEA Watersheds: Market and Gender Components of TMPEGS Philippines,” “Women and Sustainable Technology: Scaling Up Vermicomposting among the Talaandigs,” “Piloting a Participatory Process and Tool to Establish IP Household Database for Ancestral Domain Claim,” “Process Documentation of the 3D Mapping of the Teduray-Lambangian-Dulangan Manobo Ancestral Domain Claim in Sitio Kifeng-feng South Upi, Maguindanao,” “Negotiating Land Rights and Natural Resource Regulations for Local People: The Role and Effectiveness of Secondary Farmer and Community Organizations in Upland Watersheds of Southeast Asia,” “Innovative Health Care Management: Case Studies of Selected HAMIS Awardees,” “Extension of the Process Documentation Research on the BFD/Malang-og Pilot Participatory Upland Development Project in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro,” and “Building People into Forestry/Process Documentation Research on BFD-UDWG Pilot Participatory Upland Development Project in Mindoro”; and was project director with Dr. Pilar Ramos Jimenez on the studies “Development of Course Design and the Preparation and Printing of Course Modules for a Regional Training on Malaria Operational Research,” “Social Benefits and Costs: People’s Perceptions of the U.S. Bases in the Philippines,” “Health and Nutritional Problems and the Utilization of Health Services: The Situation among Preschoolers in Depressed Metro Manila Communities,” and “Economic Transactions in the Uplands: The Sale of Banana and Gold between the Iraya and the Tagalog.”