With the occurrence of a catastrophic disaster, it can be immensely difficult for healthcare systems to manage an acute and large influx of patients. During these acutely stressful periods, specialized efforts are required to keep up with the demand of space, resources, and healthcare professionals that can tend to the patients. In urban settings with high population densities, it is imperative to analyze how healthcare workers can respond to catastrophic events when there are discrepancies in staff availability.
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Listen to this insightful interview with Dr. Robyn Gershon regarding the importance of promoting the health and safety of essential workers. Dr. Gershon speaks of the art and science of health protection, promotion, and empowerment of communities to take control of their health; from working on needle-stick injuries among health care workers to improving the standards that define how we conduct business in workplaces.
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Dr. Nash analyzes the effectiveness of the CDC’s new guidance for people infected with SARS-CoV2. The new guidelines state that the isolation period should be shortened from 10 days to 5 days, and there isn’t a requirement to test negative before returning to work. This change of policy was based on outdated data, stated Dr. Nash, and the few studies suggesting how to proceed are informal.
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Listen to a rich discussion between Dr. Robyn Gershon’s, Dr. Rachael Piltch-Loeb and an NYU Masters student Suiyue Cui on how the media plays a role in spreading information or misinformation. They discuss how gaps in public health messages and the science created a space and opportunity for rumors and disinformation to take flight.
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A renowned NYU clinical Professor of epidemiology, Dr. Robyn Gershon, and her team were awarded a four million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of COVID-19 on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) transit workers.
Continue reading “NYU’s Dr. Robyn Gershon and Team Awarded Grant to Study COVID Impact on Essential Transit Workers”Testing Inoculation Videos Against Misinformation
Dr. Rachael Piltch-Loeb et al publishes a study in pre-print that utilizes known anti-vaccination narratives to develop 30 second videos that discuss vaccine misinformation. The pre post study proposes to test the attitudes of the unvaccinated participants, compared to a control group, on three videos with different messages; using a rhetoric and narrative approach, a factual rebuttal, or a hybrid of the two.
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A mixed-methods study utilized data from the World Trade Center Evacuation Study and recruited 29 survivors to self-report symptoms of PTSD using the PTSD checklist-civilian scale (PCL-C) and undergo semi-structured interviews. A thematic analysis identified 5 protective factors that represented resilience and 8 risk factors that influenced the likelihood of developing PTSD symptoms amongst this cohort.
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This article determines the effect of psychosocial factors on adherence to public health measures. The researchers proposed multiple ways to encourage the public to practice behaviors that would help control bio-events.
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Dr. Robyn Gershon is leading a study to examine why so many New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
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