Dr. C. Eduardo Siqueira is Associate Professor in the College of Public and Community Service (CPCS) at UMass Boston. He is also Coordinator of the Transnational Brazilian Project at The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy. He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Lowell between 2005 and 2011, where he has researched the political economy of the migration of hazards between developed and developing countries, healthcare workers’ work environment policy issues, and environmental justice for Brazilian immigrants. He was one of the editors of the journal New Solutions, a Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy. For information about the Journal, go to the website http://www.baywood.com/journals/PreviewJournals.asp?Id=1048-2911 He published articles and book chapters on workplace safety and health, health policy, and Brazilian immigration to the U.S. He wrote the book Dependent Convergence: The Struggle to Control Petrochemical Hazards in Brazil and the United States, Baywood Publishing Inc.
Research Reports
Socio-Economic Profile of Brazilian Businesses in Allston-Brighton (with Alvaro Lima), Gastón Institute Publications (2011)
Several studies published in Brazil and in the U.S. focus on the ethnic identity formation,...
Project COBWEB: A Report on Brazilian Immigrant Workers in Massachusetts (with Andrea Barbosa) (2008)
This second report focuses on Project COBWEB's occupational health and safety research findings, based on...
Brazilians in the U.S. and Massachusetts: A Demographic and Economic Profile (with Alvaro Lima), Gastón Institute Publications (2007)
Brazil has long seen itself as a destination for immigrants from across the globe, welcoming...
Project COBWEB Report (2005)
Project COBWEB (Collaboration for a Better Work Environment for Brazilians) or Parceria in Portuguese began...
Articles
Vocational health schools (ETSUS) in Brazil: regulation of the integration of teaching-service-administrative sustainability of ETSUS (with Fabiano Tonaco Borges, Cléa Ada Saliba Garbin, Artênio Jósé Crispin Garbin, Najara Barbosa da Rocha, Luíz Fernando Lolli, and Suzely Adas Saliba Moimaz), Ciência&Saúde Coletiva (2012)
The scope of this study was to discuss the administrative sustainability of Brazil’s Vo- cational...
Working Conditions of Brazilian Immigrants in Massachusetts (with Tiago Jansen), Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2012)
Brazilian immigration to Massachusetts and other states in the US grew significantly in the last...
Community-University Research Partnerships for Workers' and Environmental Health in Campinas Brazil (with Maria Inês Monteiro and Heleno Rodrigues Correa-Filho), Metropolital Universities An International Forum (2011)
Three partnerships between the University of Campinas, community, and pubLic health care services are discussed...
Health Survey Instrument Development Through a Community-Based Participatory Research Approach:Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP-II) and Brazilian Immigrants in Greater Boston (with Mansoureh Tajik and Heloisa M. Galvão), Journal of Immigration and Minority Health (2010)
Brazilians are among the fastest growing segment of immigrant populations in several states of the...
Health Disparities among Health Care Workers (with Barbara Mawn, Ainat Koren, Craig Slatin, Karen Devereaux Melillo, Carole Pearce, and Lee Ann Hoff), Qualitative Health Research (2010)
In this article we describe the process of an interdisciplinary case study that examined the...
Books
Anatomia da privatização neoliberal do Sistema Único de Saúde: O Papel das Organizações Sociais de Saúde (with Fabiano Tonaco Borges, Suzely Abas Saliba Moimaz, and Cléa Abas Saliba Garbin) (2012)
O objetivo da elaboração desta obra foi dissecar as partes
que compõem o processo de...