Docside Clinic Scholar’s Program
In partnership with the PEOPLE Centered Lab and Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health, and through funding from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Minority Health Research & Education Grant Program, we are offering a unique educational experience that brings students face-to-face with community-based public health practice (masters) and community-based participatory research (doctoral).
Guillot-Wright awarded $400,000 by THECB to expand successful Docside Clinics
Shannon Guillot-Wright, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Director of the Total Worker Health® Program at the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH), was recently awarded $400,000 by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). This funding will support an expansion of the innovative and impactful Docside Clinic: Connecting Docs to Docks initiative by improving access to clinical and social services for underserved commercial fishermen and waterfront workers in Port Arthur, Texas.