Ashmitha is an Assistant Risk Assessment Scientist with a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences and a Certificate in Toxicology from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health from the University of Washington. Her primary areas of practice include occupational health and safety, toxicology, industrial hygiene, and exposure and risk assessment. Ashmitha’s work at Insight has included reviewing materials to characterize chemical exposure scenarios and performing research to assess the associated risk of disease. Ashmitha has experience assessing occupational, consumer, and environmental exposures to various substances, including asbestos, talc, silica, wildfire smoke, heavy metals, chlorinated solvents, gasoline, and benzene. Ashmithaalso contributes to Total Worker Health research, investigating methods for measuring cumulative exposures and examining how work environment factors influence physiological stress.