Profile
About
M.S. Student
(MPH 2025, Ph.D. ~2028)
Department: Master of Public Health (COAS, SPPH)
Advisor: Dr. Brittany Brand, Dr. Ashley Bosa
Email: alexhonn@boisestate.edu
Phone: (425) 283-2255
Office Location: Graduate Student Success Center, Riverfront Hall, Room 117. Available by appointment.
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Research Areas
- Evacuation behavior
- Occupational health
- Community preparedness
- Land management
- Health equity
Research Summary
Alex Honn is a Student Research Technician (2) at the Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute, and a Master’s of Public Health graduate from Boise State University. He is enrolled as a doctoral student in Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University, starting in the Fall of 2025. Through the HCRI, he uses social science methods to investigate factors that affect evacuation behavior during wildfire events and how people respond to the Ready/Set/Go messaging framework. Honn has also been a part of developing patent-pending PPE to reduce occupational exposures faced by wildland firefighters through innovative design and collaborative development. He is interested in occupational health and helping create healthier, more resilient wildfire workforces and WUI communities. His dissertation work will use primary qualitative data collection to better understand how wildland fire occupational exposures affect brain health, how this varies based on demographics, and to justify and inform actionable intervention methods that improve the population’s health outcomes.
Community Partners
- The Wildfire Conservancy
- Oregon State University
- CalFire
- CalOSHA
- North Carolina State University
Collaboration Interests
Public health is a collaboration-dependent field. Honn looks forward to continuing to bridge the gap between wildland fire and public health and understands the importance of working with diverse stakeholders. He is interested in collaborating across disciplines to foster actionable solutions to public and occupational health needs related to wildland fire. Topics of interest include community preparedness and resilience, occupational health, organizational structures, and land management, explored through both qualitative and quantitative research methods.