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Anabel Rodriguez, PhD, MPH

Anabel Rodriguez
Anabel Rodriguez, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Curriculum Vitae

CV (PDF)

Contact

Environmental and Occupational Health
212 Adriance Lab Rd.
1266 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-1266
anabelr@tamu.edu
Phone: 979.436.9329

Biography

Dr. Rodriguez’s research, outreach, and training efforts have focused on improving occupational health, safety, and well-being among Spanish and Indigenous-speaking agricultural working populations in rural regions. Most recently, her work has focused on identification and prevention of tuberculosis and influenza, health service access in health ‘deserts’, including, vaccine access, utilization, hesitancy, and systemic barriers, education on vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, pandemic relief payments for wages lost, and understanding social determinants of health associated with agricultural occupations (i.e., dairy farm workers, fresh fruit and vegetable, seasonal, migrant, and H-2A visa guest farmworkers, and sorting and grading bodega workers) in the Texas Panhandle and U.S.-Mexico border communities of the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso. Dr. Rodriguez is the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants and seasonal migrant farmworkers from the Rio Grande Valley.

Education and Training

  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, PhD
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, MPH
  • Saint Edward’s University, BS

Research Interests

  • Agricultural working populations (hard-to-reach, limited English proficiency)
  • Immigrant workers, immigrant health, migrant populations
  • Occupational safety, health, and well-being training, education, program evaluation
  • Occupation (precarious employment) as a social determinant of health
  • Occupational Epidemiology, Injury Epidemiology, Total Worker Health®
  • Infectious, emerging diseases (tuberculosis, bovine tuberculosis, COVID-19, influenza, brucellosis)
  • Vaccine access, equity, utilization, hesitancy, and barriers
  • Health disparities; access barriers in rural regions (health deserts; medically underserved regions)

Teaching Interests

  • Occupational Epidemiology
  • Occupational Health, Safety, and Well-Being
  • Immigrant Working Populations