Srikanth (center) with fellow members of the DEOHS transit study team including (from left) Clinical Assistant Professor Christopher Zuidema, Assistant Professor Marissa Baker, DEOHS alum Bridget Ury and Lily Monsey, former DEOHS research coordinator. Photo: Courtesy of Baker.
With the support of the Environmental Health Student Support Fund, Pranav Srikanth recently presented research related to transit workers’ exposure to passenger drug use at the 2024 Cascadia Symposium on Environmental, Occupational and Population Health in Blaine, Washington. Srikanth's previous research report regarding COVID-19-related stress in Washington's EMTs was funded as a working group with the Washington State Labor Research Grant with funding from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.
“I particularly enjoyed the collaborative nature of this conference—seeing panels consisting of different institutions working on similar topics, and how the research on these topics is both similar and different by region,” he said. “The conference provided me with an opportunity to network with colleagues from different institutions in a casual setting, which made for interesting discussions on research.”
Deirdre Lockwood, a public information specialist for DEOHS, recently caught up with the PhD student to learn more about his research. Read the full interview here.