Overview
Associate Professor, Global Health Equity
Chair, Council on the Physical Environment (COPE), University Senate
Director, Mujeres en Salud Global Peru
Division of Health Sciences
Global Health Equity
333 W. 10th Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Phone: (614) 685-0896
Primary Areas of Interest
- Health Equity
- Tuberculosis Prevention & Control
- Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
- Decolonizing Global Health
- Migration and Health
Professional Overview
Maju is a Peruvian native who champions health equity for historically marginalized communities in the Americas. Drawing on her skills as an engineer and systems thinker, she co-designs global public health interventions through both a decolonizing and gender equity lens.
Funding
Dr. Brunette is currently funded by an interagency program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Research Training Program. Previous funding has been provided by the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH), the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), the Center to Protect Workers Right (CWPR), the UMASS Medical School Office of Global Health, and the UMASS Institute of Asian American Studies.
Community and International Work
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
- World Health Organization, Workers Health Division
- United Nations Global Compact for Migration
- OXFAM America
- Laborers' International Union of North America, LIUNA Local 175
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Ohio History Connection
- The Ohio Institute of Communities of Color
- Peruvian Labor Department
- Peruvian National Tuberculosis Program
- Socios en Salud (Partners in Health), Perú
- Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The American School of Lima, Perú
Recent Publications
Brunette, MJ (2025) ' Rejecting the single story’. Decolonising Global Health Blog -a 12-part blog series, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Blog, Oxford University. 31 January.
Moyano, LM; Brunette, MJ, Diaz, C (2024). Tackling Challenges in Peru’s Fragmented Healthcare System: Could Academia Become a True Agent of Change? Rev Méd Hered. 2024; 35(1):3-6. DOI: 10.20453/rmh.v35i1.5304
Chavez-Rimache, L; Ugarte-Gil, C; Brunette MJ. (2023). The community as an active part in the implementation of interventions for the prevention and control of tuberculosis: a scoping review; PLOS Global Public Health; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001482
Griffin, T.; Chen, Q; Sun, X; Wang, D; Brunette, MJ; Cao, Y.; Liu, B. (2022). eRxNet: A Pipeline of Convolutional Neural Networks for Tuberculosis Screening. International Journal of Semantic Computing VOL. 16, NO. 01; https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793351X22400049
Brunette, MJ (2021). Moving the needle on global health equity: a look back from 2030, Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 76:3, 121-122, DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2021.1892922
Curioso WH, Brunette MJ. (2020) Inteligencia artificial e innovación para optimizar el proceso de diagnóstico de la tuberculosis (Artificial Intelligence and Innovation to Optimize TB Diagnostic Process) Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica. 2020;37(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2020.373.5585
Honors and Awards
Education
- PhD: Industrial and Systems Engineering, (2002), University of Wisconsin Madison - Madison, WI
- MSc: Industrial Engineering, (1999), University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez - Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
- BSc: Industrial Engineering, (1992), Universty of Lima - Lima, Peru
Academic Journal Appointments
PLOS Global Public Health
Academic Editor
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Health Equity
Associate Editor
Ingenieria Industrial, Revista de La Facultad de Ingenieria y Arquitectura -Universidad de Lima, Perú.
Editorial Board/Scientific Committee