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
Safety climate in healthcare settings
Failed retrieving data.The influence of employee, job/task, and organizational factors on adherence to universal precautions among nurses
Failed retrieving data.A case study in improving safety management
Failed retrieving data.Correlates of attitudes concerning human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome among hospital workers
Failed retrieving data.Universal precautions : An update
Failed retrieving data.Safety in the clinical microbiology laboratory
Failed retrieving data.TB control in the hospital environment.
Failed retrieving data.Assessing and reducing HIV risk to the critical care nurse
Failed retrieving data.Laboratory safety
Failed retrieving data.Risk of HIV-1 transmission in the workplace
Failed retrieving data.HIV infection risk to health-care workers
Failed retrieving data.HIV infection risk to nonhealth-care workers
Failed retrieving data.The risk of transmission of HIV-1 through non-percutaneous, non-sexual modes - A review
Failed retrieving data.Occupationally acquired human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection: a review
Failed retrieving data.Training health care workers to meet the new OSHA HBV/HIV proposed standard
Failed retrieving data.Sharps handling.
Failed retrieving data.AIDS. Safety practices for clinical and research laboratories
Failed retrieving data.Microenvironmental immunoregulation: possible role of contrasuppressor cells in maintaining immune responses in gut-associated lymphoid tissues.
Failed retrieving data.Comparison of work-related injuries and illnesses in New York City transit workers from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary findings
Failed retrieving data.Dual Epidemics of COVID-19 Infection and Workplace Violence in New York City Mass Transit Workers: Implications for Policy and Practice
Failed retrieving data.New York City Transit Workers: An Essential Workforce – Addressing Occupational Resilience through Intervention Optimization
Failed retrieving data.Patterns of Assault in New York City Transit Workers Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Findings
Failed retrieving data.Role of labor unions in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a survey of union leaders
Failed retrieving data.Temporal trends of COVID-19 infections in New York City transit workers during the onset of the pandemic
Failed retrieving data.Wellbeing in essential workers: The role of family-related risk and coworker support
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