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Sabrina Cuauro

Sabrina Cuauro

PhD Graduate Student Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine Research

Psychological Sciences

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Sabrina.Cuauro.Cuauro@rice.edu

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SURF Mentoring

Potential projects/topics: Project IMPACT is a mixed-methods study that examines food insecurity, trauma, and cardiovascular risk among low-income Latino immigrants. This study employs biological markers and mixed methods to provide novel information about the mechanisms that underlie risk and resilience among immigrant communities. Students will have the opportunity to conduct interviews, analyze qualitative and/or quantitative data, and work in a community setting.

Potential skills gained: structured interview skills, health screenings, community-engage research processes

Required qualifications:

  • Required skills: Students must speak Spanish as all interviews are conducted in Spanish. We allow students who aren't native/fully fluent speakers to conduct interviews, as long as they have are at a conversational level and can read/write at an intermediate level. We also practice and train them in advance.
  • Preferred majors: No specific major but usually health sciences, social sciences, or Latin American Studies/Spanish tend to be a good fit.

Direct mentor: Graduate Student

Research Areas

Sabrina Cuauro is a first year graduate student in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the Health Psychology research interest group. She graduated from Trinity University with a B.A. in Psychology, Spanish, and Global Latinx Studies. She joined the VOCES lab in Fall of 2022 working as a research assistant on Project Heart (Corazón). Originally from Venezuela, her research interests focus on immigrant health and empowering immigrant communities to have a voice in research and policy. She is primarily focused on using community-engaged and mixed methodology to address health disparities and inequity in marginalized communities.