Shannon Guillot-Wright, PhD is an Assistant Professor and Director of Health Policy Research for
the Center for Violence Prevention, University of Texas Medical Branch.
Her program of research focuses on structural violence, with a
particular emphasis on exploring the use of research evidence in health
policymaking. Her research methodology is ethnographic in nature,
including photovoice and digital storytelling. She has conducted
photo-ethnographic fieldwork with Filipino migrant seafarers in the Gulf
of Mexico (2017) to understand how health inequities are embodied and
produced through political, economic, and social policies. Her current
ethnography (2019) explores the use of research evidence in the U.S.
Congress.
Dr. Guillot-Wright has published in international and
national journals and received research support from the Texas Medical
Center's Health Policy Institute, the State of Texas - Office of the
Governor, CDC’s Southwest Agricultural Center, and numerous national
Foundations. She was a selected artist for the National Academy of
Medicine's Visualize Health Equity gallery and her work has been
featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, Texas Monthly,
and TIME Magazine. She is the co-founder of the photovoice project
TWELVEpeople.org, is the co-founder of the Health in All Policies
Collaborative ACEs to Assets, is an elected councilor of the American
Public Health Association’s Community Health Planning and Policy
Development section, and sits on the Advisory Board for the Children’s
Defense Fund – Texas. Dr. Guillot-Wright has her PhD in the Medical
Humanities from the University of Texas 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.