PEOPLE Centered Lab

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.

Caroline Ferguson, PhD 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 & a Science Communications Fellow in our lab producing the Surf & Turf podcast.

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 coordinates many of our research projects, including our Docside Clinics.

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.

CucHuyen Roberts has been a Vietnamese Interpreter for over 17 years. 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 now a certified CHW for our Lab.

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 certifie

Nhu Nguyen is a first-year MPH student at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, specializing in Industrial Hygiene. She obtained her BA in Biology from the University of North Texas and decided to return to school to be a Certified Industrial Hygienist.

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

Asya Ardawatia is a senior at Dulles High School and the Exec. Dir. for March for Our Lives Houston. She also interns for State Rep. Gene Wu, and is a member of Sugar Land's Mayor's Youth Advisory Council and her school's Principal Advisory Committee. She is one of our Lab's high school interns, learning about health policy research and advocacy.