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
Health care workers' experience with postexposure management of bloodborne pathogen exposures : A pilot study
Failed retrieving data.Hospital safety climate and its relationship with safe work practices and workplace exposure incidents
Failed retrieving data.Testing the reliability and validity of a measure of safety climate.
Failed retrieving data.Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a cadaver to an embalmer
Failed retrieving data.Catastrophe model for the exposure to blood-borne pathogens and other accidents in health care settings
Failed retrieving data.Compliance with universal precautions in correctional health care facilities
Failed retrieving data.Safety climate dimensions associated with occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens in nurses
Failed retrieving data.The impact of multifocused interventions on sharps injury rates at an acute-care hospital
Failed retrieving data.The public health and law enforcement stress
Failed retrieving data.Correlates of infection control practices in dentistry
Failed retrieving data.Infection control basis for recommending one-time use of sterile syringes and aseptic procedures for injection drug users
Failed retrieving data.The use of total quality improvement techniques to determine risk factors for back injuries in hospital workers.
Failed retrieving data.Tuberculosis risk in funeral home employees
Failed retrieving data.Compliance with universal precautions among physicians
Failed retrieving data.Laboratory professionals' compliance with universal precautions
Failed retrieving data.A work-systems analysis of compliance with Universal precautions among health care workers
Failed retrieving data.Facilitator report : Bloodborne pathogens exposure among health care workers
Failed retrieving data.Methodologic issues in intervention research - Health care
Failed retrieving data.Operationalizing theoretical constructs in bloodborne pathogens training curriculum
Failed retrieving data.Stress and occupational exposure to HIV/AIDS
Failed retrieving data.Work-related stress and psychological distress in emergency medical technicians.
Failed retrieving data.Behavioral factors in safety training
Failed retrieving data.Compliance with universal precautions among health care workers at three regional hospitals
Failed retrieving data.Occupational Risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Hepatitis B Virus, and Hepatitis C Virus Infections Among Funeral Service Practitioners in Maryland
Failed retrieving data.Review of accidents/injuries among emergency medical service workers in Baltimore, Maryland
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