Rate My Professor Shannon Guillot-Wright

Shannon Guillot-Wright, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, part of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She serves as Deputy Director of the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Director of the Total Worker Health Program, and Admissions Lead in her department. Previously, she was Assistant Professor and Director of Health Policy Research at the University of Texas Medical Branch Center for Violence Prevention. She earned a PhD in Medical Humanities from the University of Texas Medical Branch, an MA in Human Rights from Columbia University, and completed postdoctoral training in health policy research at Pennsylvania State University.

Guillot-Wright's research centers on occupational health equity, social-structural determinants of health, injury prevention, and disparities affecting vulnerable populations such as commercial fishermen, shrimpers, H-2B migrant workers, immigrant seafood processors, and adolescents. She employs community-based participatory research and ethnographic methods to explore labor policies, structural violence, power dynamics, and their health impacts. Her funded projects include a nearly $2 million CDC grant as co-investigator for a longitudinal mixed-methods study of firearms among ethnically diverse adolescents and young adults, a nearly $1 million NIOSH/CDC grant titled 'Navigating the Waters of the US Healthcare System: Improving the Biopsychosocial Health of Fishing Industry Workers,' and $400,000 from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to expand the Docside Clinic—a monthly mobile biopsychosocial health service launched in 2021, delivering over 1,500 patient encounters including screenings, vaccinations, dental care, and occupational therapy to Gulf Coast waterfront workers. Key publications feature 'Occupational health equity: a call to consider social-structural factors in injury prevention research' (2025), 'Social determinants of occupational injuries among US-based commercial fishermen: a systematic review' (2025), 'Health Disparities Among Shrimpers in the Gulf Coast' (2025), and technical reports on worker well-being post-natural disasters and paid sick leave policies. With 666 citations, her work advances policy translation, coalition-building, student training, and equitable occupational health interventions.