Maria Brunette

Greater Boston Area United States

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML)

Education

Dr. Brunette is an industrial and systems engineer engaged in Global Public Health research. Her work focuses in applying human factors and socio-technical systems theory to the design of effective and culturally-relevant work & health systems with the goal of improving the physical, mental and social well-being of marginalized, resource-poor working communities. Her current studies engage resource-poor populations using primarily the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) mechanism. To read more about latest project using mobile technologies (mHealth) to improve Tuberculosis diagnostics please see following link. These efforts are developed under the platform of Community-Based P...