Biography
Luz is a doctoral student with experience as a teaching and research assistant, Demography instructor, first-year college experience instructor, and Spanish/English interpreter at Texas A&M. She is a multidisciplinary explorer who actively collaborates with faculty and students in different colleges throughout the university, including the School of Public Health and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (COALS). As a COALS Student Success team member, she is currently deepening her knowledge of higher education affairs and administration and applying her skills to design initiatives that further students' physical, mental, and academic well-being. She is all about using data and evaluations to create programs that help the college student population at Texas A&M while also keeping an active research agenda on health behavior and mortality among other populations, especially older adults and migrants.
Research Interests
- Demography
- Older-Adult Mortality
- Health Inequities
- Health Behavior
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities