Arnado, Mary Janet M.
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Virginia Tech – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Master of Arts in Health Social Science, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
Master of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology (all but thesis)
Specialization: Sociology, health social science
Dr. Mary Janet M. Arnado is chair of the Behavioral Sciences Department of the DLSU College of Liberal Arts and an SDRC faculty research fellow. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and her MA in Health Social Sciences from DLSU. In 2010 she was named Outstanding Young Scientist by the Department of Science and Technology and she has also been the recipient of the REPUBLICA Regional Award in Social Sciences given by the Commission on Higher Education. Her areas of specialization are in globalization and gendered migration, natural resources, violent conflict and internal displacement, colonialism and Filipina feminism, sustainable agriculture, Southern Asia (Philippines, Singapore) and Europe (Germany). She recently headed the research team for the SDRC project “Assessment of the Implementation of Maternal Newborn Child Health and Nutrition Health Systems Strengthening for Indigenous Cultural Communities in Selected UNICEF Areas” and was previously a research associate for the project “Pilot Testing of Monitoring and Evaluation Tools for Local Government Unit (LGU) Performance Assessment in Health Systems.”