Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne
My name is Yoshi and I am a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences. My dissertation ‘Exposures and Health Risks of the Diné Communities Impacted by the Gold King Mine Spill’ focuses on understanding the impacts of the 2015 Gold King Mine Spill through a community-based research approach. I am interested in bridging the gap between community-based participatory research and exposure science. Specifically, I want to continue working with Indigenous communities facing environmental disasters and find sustainable interventions to reduce their exposures.
Awards:
- T32 Pre-doctoral training fellowship Training in Environmental Toxicology of Complex Diseases, NIEHS T32 ES007091
- Graduate Research Fellow, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Graduate Research Fellowship in Indigenous Water Issues
Oral Presentations:
- Mary kay O’Rourke, Rachelle Begay, Adam Carl, Steve Hadeed, Nathan Lothrop, Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Meeting. “Return of Research Results to Individual participants in Diné and Hopi Communities”. RTP, NC. December 13th -14th, 2018.
- Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, Karletta Chief, Mae-Gilene Begay, Nicolette Teufel-Shone, Paloma Beamer. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Tribal Listening Session. “Honoring traditional knowledge in understanding short term exposures of Navajo communities after the Gold King Mine Spill”. Phoenix, AZ. Invited speaker. October 16-17th, 2018.
- Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, Karletta Chief, Mae-Gilene Begay, Nicolette Teufel-Shone, Paloma Beamer. Tribal Lands and Environment Forum. “The community engagement process for responding to the Gold King Mine Spill”. Spokane, WA. August 14th, 2018.
- Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, Karletta Chief, Mae-Gilene Begay, Nicolette Teufel-Shone, Paloma Beamer. Environmental Health Disparities Community Engagement Core Monthly Meeting Webinar. “Communication and Results-Report Back Strategies” April 2018.
- Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, Karletta Chief, Mae-Gilene Begay, Nicolette Teufel-Shone, Manley Begay, Nathan Lothrop, Paloma Beamer. International Society of Exposure Science (ISES), 27th Annual Meeting Conference “Quantification of Diné activity patterns with the San Juan River in the wake of the Gold King Mine Spill”. Durham, North Carolina, October 2017.
- Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, Karletta Chief, Nathan Lothrop, Paloma Beamer. “Exposure pathways considered by the Gold King Mine Diné Exposure Project”. Indigenous Cultural Use of Water. Policy Forum, Native Nations Institute, Tucson, Arizona, April 2017.
Poster Presentations:
- Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, Karletta Chief, Mae-Gilene Begay, Nicolette Teufel-Shone, Manley Begay, Nathan Lothrop, Paloma Beamer. International Society of Exposure Science (ISES), 25th Annual Meeting Conference. “Incorporating Diné exposure pathways into a community-based probabilistic risk assessment following the Gold King Mine Spill”. Poster presentation. Ottawa, CA. August 26th, 2018
- Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, Karletta Chief, Mae-Gilene Begay, Nicolette Teufel-Shone, Manley Begay, Nathan Lothrop, Paloma Beamer. NIEHS EHD Centers Annual Grantee Meeting. “Quantification of Diné activity patterns with the San Juan River in the wake of the Gold King Mine Spill”. Albuquerque New Mexico, December 2017.
