Shannon Guillot-Wright
Shannon Guillot-Wright, PhD is an Associate Professor at UTHealth School of Public Health, where she serves as the Director of Health Policy at the Center for Violence Prevention and Director of Total Worker Health® at the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. Her program of research focuses on health equity and the use of evidence in policymaking, with an emphasis on precarious employment. She is particularly interested in examining power, influence, and social change. Dr. Guillot-Wright’s research is grounded in community based participatory research principles and her methodology is photo-ethnographic. She is PI or Co-I of several CDC- and NIH-funded projects, including the implementation of primary care clinics for migrant waterfront workers, as well as examining the use of firearm research among policymakers. Previously, she was a selected artist for the National Academy of Medicine’s Health Equity Gallery for her short film documenting healthcare access among immigrant workers; was selected to be part of the AAMC’s Center for Health Justice team to document reasons and causes for medical mistrust; has displayed over 100 photographs in art galleries that were developed with participants through photovoice; and her work has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, Houston Public Radio, TIME Magazine, Texas Monthly, and Houston Chronicle, among others.
She is a Governing Councilor for the American Public Health Association, a board member for the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, sits on the Advisory Board for the Children’s Defense Fund – Texas, and was named a Robert Graham Center Scholar in Health Policy. Dr. Guillot-Wright has her PhD in Medical Humanities from UT Medical Branch, MA in Human Rights from Columbia University, and completed her postdoctoral training at the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State.
