Alexandra Mandroiu

Alter-worldist (alter-mundista) with educational and professional roots in medical sciences, global health, and critical approaches to healthcare policy and innovation. My work at the ISS is part of a joint PhD degree in partnership with the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at Nova University of Lisbon.

Through research centered on Women’s health practices in Brazil’s indigenous traditions, drawing from ancestral and emergent cosmologies of care, I engage with pluriversal ecologies, decolonial praxis, otherwise ontologies, and planetary well-being.

As a researcher, scientist, and feminist, I am currently focused on exploring and expanding the frontiers of planetary health by weaving connections between human and more-than-human worlds, through relational, place-based practices of care that foreground alternative and subaltern ways of thinking-feeling, living, and healing.