Robyn Gershon
Robyn Gershon
Clinical Professor of Epidemiology
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Professional overview
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Dr. Gershon is an interdisciplinary occupational and environmental health and safety researcher with extensive experience in the areas of disaster preparedness, healthcare safety, and risk assessment and management in high-risk work occupations. She earned her doctorate in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, where she was on faculty for several years.
Subsequently, Dr. Gershon was a Professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, with a joint appointment in the School of Nursing.
At the Mailman School, she also served as the Associate Dean for Research and was the Director of the Mentoring Program. Her most recent faculty appointment prior to joining NYU GPH was Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She was also an Adjunct Professor in the UCSF School of Nursing, as well as at UC Berkeley where she taught public health disaster courses.
Dr. Gershon and her team conducted numerous ground breaking studies to develop and test new metrics of preparedness. Importantly, Dr. Gershon’s work has influenced the adoption of safe work practices and regulatory control measures, such as national needlestick prevention guidelines and high-rise building fire safety laws. Her numerous research studies encompass a wide range of topics, including, (to name a few): bloodborne pathogen exposure; hospital safety climate; psychosocial work stress in law enforcement; “ability and willingness” of essential workforce employees to report to duty during natural and man-made disasters; preparedness of responders for terrorist incidents; emergency high–rise building evacuation- (including the World Trade Center Evacuation Study); emergency preparedness of the elderly and disabled; mass fatality management infrastructure in the US; adherence to emergency public health measures among the general public; hearing loss risk in subway ridership; and noise exposure in urban populations.
Dr. Gershon recently completed a four-year, longitudinal intervention NIH-funded study on motivation and persistence in pursuing STEM research careers among underrepresented doctoral students. (the BRIDGE Project).
As a committed advocate for junior faculty and graduate students, Dr. Gershon will play an active role in research mentorship and advisement.
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Education
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BS, Medical Technology, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CTMHS, Medical Microbiology, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CTDrPH, Environmental and Occupational Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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Honors and awards
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Recipient, American Society of Safety Engineers, Membership Award, Oakland, CA (2016)Recipient, John L. Ziegler Capstone Mentor Award, Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco (2015)Recipient, City of New York Fire Commissioner's Special Commendation Certificate of Appreciation (2006)Recipient, Survivors' Salute, World Trade Center Survivors' Network (2006)Recipient, Annual International Sharps Injury Prevention Award (2005)Delta Omega (Public Health) Honorary Society (1997)Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (Microbiology) (1976)Lambda Tau Mu Honor Society (Laboratory Science) (1976)
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Areas of research and study
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Disaster HealthDisaster Impact and RecoveryDisaster PreparednessEnvironmental Public Health ServicesEpidemiologyHealthcare SafetyOccupational HealthRisk Assessment and Management
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Publications
Publications
“They did not care about us” : How a lack of pandemic preparedness created long-term distrust and dissatisfaction among New York City transit workers
Failed retrieving data.Adverse Effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Amid Cumulative Disasters : A Qualitative Analysis of the Experiences of Children and Families
Failed retrieving data.Association of Victimization by Sex among Public Facing Bus and Subway Transit Workers, New York City
Failed retrieving data.Barriers and Facilitators to Vaccine Equity Amidst the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout in the United States
Failed retrieving data.Temporal Trends of Early COVID-19 Infections in New York City Transit Workers and Residents : March 01, 2020–May 02, 2020
Failed retrieving data.Examining the effects of cumulative environmental stressors on Gulf Coast child and adolescent health
Failed retrieving data.Examining the effects of cumulative environmental stressors on Gulf Coast child and adolescent health
Failed retrieving data.New York City Transit Workers: An Essential Workforce – Addressing Occupational Resilience through Intervention Optimization
Failed retrieving data.New York City Transit Workers: An Essential Workforce – Addressing Occupational Resilience through Intervention Optimization.
Failed retrieving data.Associations Between COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Socio-Spatial Factors in NYC Transit Workers 50 Years and Older
Failed retrieving data.Are local offices of emergency management prepared for people with disabilities? Results from the FEMA Region 9 Survey
Failed retrieving data.Impact of occupational exposure to COVID-19 on the physical and mental health of an essential workgroup : New York City transit workers
Failed retrieving data.Landesman's Public Health Management of Disasters: The Practice Guide, 5th Edition
Failed retrieving data.Comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and lower respiratory symptoms in disaster survivors : Qualitative results of a 17-year follow-up of World Trade Center disaster survivors
Failed retrieving data.Construction trade and extraction workers : A population at high risk for drug use in the United States, 2005–2014
Failed retrieving data.The influence of social supports on graduate student persistence in biomedical fields
Failed retrieving data.Adherence to Emergency Public Health Measures for Bioevents : Review of US Studies
Failed retrieving data.Emergency Preparedness Safety Climate and Other Factors Associated with Mental Health Outcomes among World Trade Center Disaster Evacuees
Failed retrieving data.Enabling a Disaster-Resilient Workforce : Attending to Individual Stress and Collective Trauma
Failed retrieving data.Health care emergency preparedness: changes on the horizon
Failed retrieving data.Mass-Fatality Incident Preparedness among Faith-Based Organizations
Failed retrieving data.Psychosocial Influences on Disaster Preparedness in San Francisco Recipients of Home Care
Failed retrieving data.Resilience to post-traumatic stress among World Trade Center survivors : A mixed-methods study
Failed retrieving data.Self-reported Preparedness to Respond to Mass Fatality Incidents in 38 State Health Departments
Failed retrieving data.Are We Ready for Mass Fatality Incidents? Preparedness of the US Mass Fatality Infrastructure
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