Jonathan Credo

Biography

Jonathan Credo (“Credo”) is a Navajo (Diné) – Filipino M.D., Ph.D. with current joint affiliation at Northern Arizona University as a researcher and the University of California, Davis Health System as a combined internal medicine – psychiatry resident in the combined five-year residency program. Credo has been a researcher since 2010 when he first began collaborating on environmental exposures dealing with water quality on the Navajo Nation. Since then, he has collaborated with Indigenous and rural communities and projects across the Western United States, Alaska, the Philippines, Australia, and the Middle East all involving quantifying environmental exposures through the use of a myriad of sample media, from water and soil to insects and human tissue samples. His current projects involve cancer prevalence on the Navajo Nation and the link to heavy metals, providing novel air quality measurements and pollutant identification to improve regional health around the Four Corners, improving mental health services to remote and rural Indigenous communities in the Southwest, and understanding the motivations for professionals that serve Indigenous communities. Credo hopes to utilize the on-going combined training and background to improve health care outcomes in rural and Indigenous communities.