Dr. Johnathon Ehsani
2008
John Monash Scholar
PhD
Public Health, teenage driving
University of Michigan
United States of America
Medicine and Health
Johnathon is the current Leon S. Robertson Faculty Development Chair in Injury Prevention at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Johnathon has a BA in Medical Science from UTS, a Masters in Public Health from the University of Sydney, and a Master of Health Science from La Trobe University. His John Monash Scholarship allowed him to study for his PhD at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health and Transportation Research Institute with world experts in road safety. He did his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health, where his research on driving behavior continued. Dr. Ehsani's current research examines the role of policy and technology on driver behavior and safety. He has ongoing studies examining the effectiveness of Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) systems and distracted driving policies on crashes and injuries at a population level. He is also collaborating on a number of naturalistic driving studies that examine individual-level driver behavior in a variety of contexts (e.g. while teens are learning to drive). Most recently, he has directed the development of a smartphone application that measures risky driving behavior.