Health Promotion

Project Collaboration for Better Work Environment for Brazilians in Massachusetts (COBWEB)

The project Collaboration for Better Work Environment for Brazilians in Massachusetts (COBWEB, or Projeto Parceria in Portuguese) aimed at educating and engaging members of a growing Brazilian immigrant community in Massachusetts in identifying, recognizing, analyzing, and designing a research agenda to prevent work environment hazards that affect Brazilian immigrant workers and their families. This project brought Brazilian immigrant workers together to participate in the investigation of the numerous hazards they faced at work and the development of feasible and viable solutions to the health problems generated by daily exposure to those hazards.