Jonathan Blohm
My name is Jonathan Blohm and I am a graduate student pursuing a Master of Science in Environmental Health Science from the University of Arizona. I am from Tucson, Arizona and completed my bachelor’s in Physiology from the University of Arizona in May 2018. Since May of 2017, I have worked on the Hopi Environmental Health Project (HEHP) as first an undergraduate researcher in the Environmental Health Science – Transformative Research Undergraduate Experience (EHS-TRUE). My research interests reside with identifying arsenic contamination in the drinking water of the Hopi Tribe and conducting cancer risk assessments associated with dietary consumption. Working on HEHP has greatly impacted my understanding of eliminating health disparities in rural, underserved tribal communities here in my native state of Arizona. My professional goals are to become a physician and I aspire to further the research in understanding how environmental exposures impact later chronic diseases in underserved communities.
Presentations:
- ISES 2017 Research Triangle Park, NC – Poster Presentation: Daily and diurnal trends in PM10 & 2.5 collected by a TEOM 1405-DF on the Hopi Reservation of Arizona.
- ISES 2018 Ottawa, Canada – Poster and Oral Presentation: Preliminary Quantitative Risk Assessment: Arsenic exposure from drinking water on the Hopi Lands
Awards:
- Environmental Health Science (EHS) – Transformative Research Undergraduate Experience (TRUE) Travel Award (2017).
- Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) Award (2016, 2017,2018)
- International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) – Travel Award (2018)
