Healthy Living Program

Impactful, innovative community-engaged intervention research to improve the lives of all Texans and beyond

Research for human health related to agriculture

The Texas A&M AgriLife Center at Dallas serves as a major Texas hub for research and community education surrounding the expansive and interconnected aspects of human health related to agriculture. 

Healthy Living conducts impactful, innovative community-engaged intervention research to improve the lives of all Texans and beyond. Specifically, our projects seek to increase physical and mental health, especially within disproportionately affected communities.

A part of the Texas A&M Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture

Our research serves as one of three major focus areas of the Texas A&M Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA.

Healthy Living research within the IHA works with other teams focusing on responsive agriculture and precision nutrition.

Within the IHA, healthy living is the development, evaluation and dissemination of community-engaged health promotion and chronic disease prevention intervention programs that integrate individual, sociocultural, environmental and policy/system-level factors.

Healthy Living Team

Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, Ph.D.

Healthy Living Lead and Associate 

Publications

A full selection of Dr. Seguin Fowler’s publications is available at TAMU Scholars along with information about researchers and peer-reviewed publications across The Texas A&M University System.

Chad Rethorst, Ph.D.

Associate Professor 

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
[email protected]
972.952.9625

Jacob Szeszulski, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
[email protected]
972.952.9202

Matt Roth

Transportation Manager

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Andrew McNeely, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate 

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Emma Lewis, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate 

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Cassy Beattie, Ph.D

Postdoctoral Research Associate 

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Deyaun Jafari, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Specialist

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Allyson Schaefers

Senior Research Associate

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Lily Benner

Research Specialist

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Galen Eldridge

Research Specialist

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Victoria Trevino

Research Associate

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Angel Christou

Program Aide

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Alexandra MacMillan Uribe, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
[email protected]
972.952.9275

Vi Luong

Program and Operations Manager

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
[email protected]
972.952.9219

Meredith Graham

Program Evaluation and Data Systems Manager

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Katie Romo, BSN, RN

MHAC Clinical Manager

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
katie.romo@ag.tamu.edu

Johanna Andrews Trevino, Ph.D.

Senior Data Scientist

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
[email protected]@ag.tamu.edu

Byunggul “BG” Lim, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
bg.lim@ag.tamu.edu

Gabi DeMello, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
gabi.demello@ag.tamu.edu

Erika Largacha

Senior Research Associate

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Meghan Kershaw

Research Specialist

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Alisha George

Research Associate

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
alisha.george@ag.tamu.edu

Kendra Marstall

Research Associate

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
kendra.marstall@ag.tamu.edu