Bio:

My university education began at McGill University, where I received a BSc in Biochemistry, minor in Psychology. After graduation, I worked in the pharmaceutical industry for a year before going back to McGill University to receive a second BSc, this time in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, majoring in Global Food Security. It was during this time where my interest in environmental health developed. This interest led me to join the Chan lab in 2016 first as a master’s student then later transitioning to a PhD. The overarching objective of my thesis is to look how biomarkers can be applied in a human biomonitoring study to evaluate arsenic exposure and its associated health outcomes. My thesis project is part of the Health Effects Monitoring Program which is under the Giant Mine Remediation Project in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Giant Mine is an inactivated gold mine in which 237, 000 tonnes of arsenic are currently stored in the underground chambers of the old mine site. The Health Effects Monitoring Program is a biomonitoring study that aims to investigate the impact and exposure of arsenic and other chemicals of potential concern (COPCs) on the communities of Yellowknife, and the First Nations communities of Dettah, and Ndilo.

Publications:

Cheung, J. S. J., Hu, X. F., Parajuli, R. P., Rosol, R., Torng, A., Mohapatra, A., ... & Chan, H. M. (2020). Health risk assessment of arsenic exposure among the residents in Ndilǫ, Dettah, and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 230, DOI: 113623.

Chan, H. M., Hu, X. F., Cheung, J. S., Parajuli, R. P., Rosol, R., Yumvihoze, E., ... & Mohapatra, A. (2020). Cohort profile: health effects monitoring programme in Ndilǫ, Dettah and Yellowknife (YKHEMP). BMJ open, 10(9), DOI: e038507.