Ergonomia para o Desenvolvimento - Development Ergonomics

Industrially developing regions are most often studied from economic, business, and other domain perspectives, such as agriculture and public health. These perspectives offer problem-solving frameworks that focus on specific consequences of development problems. Development Ergonomics looks at development of work systems over a span of levels from the individual and their interaction with other systems through technologies and artifacts.  Examples from history of technology, from tales, and from industrially developing region projects illustrate the universality of this notion in human activity.

Patricia Rose Ferrara, B.S., M.S., M.A., M.S studied physics (B.S., M.S.) and statistics (M.A.) in early years and has worked briefly in instrumentation before entering the insurance industry as an actuarial statistician.  This work sparked interests in epidemiology and work system development.  Following further study in health systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Ferrara worked for USAID in Mozambique as a Public Health Specialist. From this followed CGAIR funded project development of Projecto EcoSaude on community-based malaria control in Chokwe district of Mozambique, and later a CARE funded project in Nampula, Mozambique on integration of TB and HIV programs.  More than disease control, these projects realized the interconnected issues of information and work systems development.  Dra Ferrara studies worker strategy change as a element of work system and industry development in Mozambique where she is a permanent resident and is currently working on a PhD in Human Factors Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

Uma iniciativa do C-MAST – Research Seminar (Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technology)

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