Laura-Alina Fabich

Laura-Alina Fabich is a PhD researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the Department of International Development. Her research focuses on autonomous, non-hierarchical cooperative networks that provide essential services in fragile settings, independent of external resources, grounded in solidarity and mutual aid. Her regional focus is on Latin America.

She was previously employed by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Peru, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Sweden, and the University of Giessen in Germany. For four years, she worked in Search and Rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea.

Her previous research examined the climate change-induced mobility of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, Tamil diaspora's health programmes amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, and the interlinkages between inclusive health interventions and peacebuilding in conflict-affected settings.

She holds a Master of Research from LSE, a Joint Master's in Public Health in Disasters from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden and the Oviedo University, Spain, as well as a Bachelor's in Global Nutrition and Health from University College Copenhagen, Denmark, with a minor in Human Rights Studies in Politics, Law and Society.

Expertise:

Alternative bottom-up humanitarian-development actors, mutual aid and non-hierarchical networks

Krannich, S., Fabich, LA. (2025): The Tamil Health Diaspora in Times of War, Covid-19 and Economic Depression in Sri Lanka In: Hunger, U., Ansar, A., Krannich, S. (eds) Migration und Covid-19. Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-46346-5_9

Lilja, J., Ferrari, G., Alvarado, J., Fabich, LA,. et al (2024): Territorial control by non-state armed groups and gendered access to healthcare in conflict. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 855 (2024). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03345-2

Krannich, S., Van Maanen C. and Fabich, LA (2022): The links between Tamil migrant organisations in Germany and the UK and healthcare in Sri Lanka. The University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). https://shorturl.at/i5H6U