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