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Greater Boston Area United States
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Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston; Principal Investigator at CIGIDEN
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How do emerging technologies foster the development of community and resilience during crisis? What can communities online do to foster empowerment and participation? How patients can engage with clinicians, scholars, policy makers in shaping services according to their needs?
My research with colleagues in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the USA, explores emerging technology on families, transnational/immigrant families, family health, patient communities online, and how social networks strengthen resilience during a natural disaster. Presently, I am studying how communities face to face and online address risk and social vulnerability in the aftermath of socionatu...
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