From the Navajo Nation to the Lab: A Scientist Who Answers to His CommunityDr. Credo brings chemistry, medicine, and Indigenous values together to tackle the environmental health crises affecting Native American communities.
As a Diné (Navajo)-Filipino scientist, Jonathan Credo, M.D., Ph.D. already felt connected to the land where environmental threats facing the Native community weren't just abstractions. Unregulated water sources laced with uranium and arsenic. Air quality shaped by decades of industrial activity. Health disparities with deep roots and few resources to address them.
