Shannon Guillot-Wright, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Dept of Environmental and Occupational Health at UTHealth's School of Public Health and Director of the PEOPLE Centered Lab. She is also the Director of Health Policy at the Center for Violence Prevention, Director of Total Worker Health at the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, and holds affiliations at UTHealth’s Center for Health Equity as well as UTMB’s School of Nursing and Department of Global Health. Her program of research focuses on occupational health equity and the use of evidence in policymaking, with an emphasis on structural violence and social justice. She is particularly interested in understanding power, influence, and social change. Her research is grounded in ethnographic and participatory methods, including photovoice and digital storytelling.

Rosandra Daywalker, MD, an occupational medicine physician and PhD candidate in Total Worker Health® at UTHealth School of Public Health leads data analysis for our Lab and assists with clinical operations of our Docside Clinic(TM).

Dr. Caroline Ferguson is a seafood justice scholar from West Memphis, Arkansas. She works with seafood communities to understand and address food sovereignty, equitable fisheries management, environmental degradation, and resistance to the dominant global food system. She is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford and a Science Communications Fellow at UTHealth’s PEOPLE Centered Lab. Previously, she was a Research Associate in the Social Oceans Lab at the University of Maine after receiving her PhD from Stanford in 2021. She is also the producer and host of Surf & Turf: a seafood justice podcast, which features interviews with U.S. fishermen and their families, seafood labor organizers, investigative reporters, seafood small business and non-profit leaders, and justice advocates across the seafood system.

Bibiana Toro Figueira graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and is an MPH student at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She founded the St. Vincent's Spanish Speaking Outreach program and coordinates their Heart Failure Clinic in Galveston, TX. She leads our Lab's outreach efforts, including our Docside Clinics(TM).

Rebecca Klaff, MPH is a graduate of UTHealth SPH and George Washington University. Previously, she worked in the Health Equity Research Group as well as in the US House of Representatives. Rebecca will be leading one of our Docside Clinic initiatives and coordinating our firearm policy research project.

Nhu Nguyen is a first-year MPH student at UTHealth School of Public Health, specializing in Industrial Hygiene. She obtained her BA in Biology from the University of North Texas. After working for a few years in the healthcare and revenue cycle management industry, she decided to return to school and aspires to be a Certified Industrial Hygienist.

CucHuyen Roberts has been a Vietnamese Interpreter for over 17 years and has participated in local, national, and international governmental organizations. She has worked with the PEOPLE Centered Lab since 2021, interpreting interviews, translating documents to ensure our populations have access to resources in their native languages, and is in the process of becoming a certified community health worker.

Cuc Hoa Trieu is a graduate from Texas Chiropractic College in Houston. She has worked as an interpreter for Vietnamese populations for over 15 years. Using her fluency in both English and Vietnamese, Cuc Hoa has dedicated her skills to helping the many Vietnamese speaking people of her community. She is currently in the process of being a certified community health worker.

Leonard Wang is an MD-MPH student at the University of Texas Medical Branch studying the intersection of healthcare management and health disparities. He is also a Fulbright Scholar in London and will be attending Cambridge for his MBA in the fall of 2026. He leads the funding & coordination of yearly flu kits for our Docside Clinic(TM).

Erica Lin is a junior at Rice University on the premedical track with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Medical Humanities. She is from Myanmar and moved to the US two years ago for college. She is interested in learning more about health policy and health equity among disadvantaged communities. She is very excited to work at the PEOPLE Centered Lab and hopes to gain a deeper understanding of the social determinants of health and their impact. In her free time she enjoys horseback riding and spending time with her dachshund puppy!

Each year, our Lab hosts one high school intern to work on a project.