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
Coping Behavior and Risk of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Federal Disaster Responders
Failed retrieving data.Experiences and psychological impact of deployment for West Africa Ebola among U.S. volunteer health care workers
Failed retrieving data.Impact of heath information technology on the quality of patient care
Failed retrieving data.Quality of graduate school life: do perceptions differ among majority/minority students?
Failed retrieving data.Quality of life of persons injured on 9/11 : Qualitative analysis from the world trade center health registry
Failed retrieving data.Musculoskeletal Symptoms in Nurses in the Early Implementation Phase of California's Safe Patient Handling Legislation
Failed retrieving data.Street-level noise in an urban setting : Assessment and contribution to personal exposure
Failed retrieving data.Family and partner interpersonal violence among American Indians/Alaska Natives
Failed retrieving data.Mass fatality preparedness among medical examiners/coroners in the United States : A cross-sectional study
Failed retrieving data.Emergency preparedness in a sample of persons with disabilities.
Failed retrieving data.Estimation of permanent noise-induced hearing loss in an urban setting
Failed retrieving data.Factors related to essential workers' ability and willingness to work and comply with personal infection control protocol during a large scale influenza pandemic in Hawaii
Failed retrieving data.Mass transit ridership and self-reported hearing health in an urban population
Failed retrieving data.Prevalence and factors associated with 2009 to 2011 influenza vaccinations at a university medical center
Failed retrieving data.Using participatory action research to identify strategies to improve pandemic vaccination.
Failed retrieving data.Exposures to transit and other sources of noise among New York City residents
Failed retrieving data.Safety in the home healthcare sector : Development of a new household safety checklist
Failed retrieving data.The World Trade Center evacuation study : Factors associated with initiation and length of time for evacuation
Failed retrieving data.Genes, jobs, and justicCe : Occupational medicine physicians and the ethical, legal, and social issues of genetic testing in the workplace
Failed retrieving data.Mass fatality preparedness in the death care sector
Failed retrieving data.Modeling pre-evacuation delay by evacuees in World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 on September 11, 2001 : A revisit using regression analysis
Failed retrieving data.The differing perspectives of workers and occupational medicine physicians on the ethical, legal and social issues of genetic testing in the workplace
Failed retrieving data.Disaster mental health training programmes in New York City following September 11, 2001
Failed retrieving data.Factors associated with the ability and willingness of essential workers to report To duty during a pandemic
Failed retrieving data.Pandemic-related ability and willingness in home healthcare workers.
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