Robyn Gilden, PhD, RN

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Robyn Gilden, PhD, RN
  • Associate Professor
    Family and Community Health
  • Program Director, Environmental Health Certificate
    Family and Community Health
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Location:
Room 645C, School of Nursing Building
Phone:
410-706-4803
Office Hours:
by appointment
Email:
Personal Website

Education

  • BS, Nursing, Salisbury State University, 1997
  • MS, Community Public Health Nursing, University of MD School of Nursing, 2001
  • Post Master's Certificate in Environmental Health Nursing, University of MD School of Nursing, 2003
  • PhD, Philosophy in Nursing Research, University of MD School of Nursing, 2010

Contracts, Fellowships, Grants, and Sponsored Research

  • Date:
    2011 - 2012
    Title:
    Analysis of Eco-Healthy Child Care Program Data
    Sponsoring Organization:
    University of Maryland School of Nursing
    Role:
    Principal
  • Date:
    2014 - 2015
    Title:
    Pesticide Monitoring on Soccer Fields via Wipe and Urine Samples
    Sponsoring Organization:
    University of Maryland School of Nursing
    Role:
    Principal
  • Date:
    2016 - 2017
    Title:
    Creating an IPE Climate Change Elective
    Sponsoring Organization:
    MADE CLEAR Climate Change
    Role:
    Principal
  • Date:
    2016 - 2019
    Title:
    Community and Public Health Environmental Initiative
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Funding received from Mary Catherine Bunting Foundation
    Role:
    Supporting
  • Date:
    2017 - 2019
    Title:
    Determining the Contribution of Pesticides to Asthma in Children
    Sponsoring Organization:
    University of Maryland School of Nursing
    Role:
    Principal
  • Date:
    2018 - 2019
    Title:
    Baltimore City Lead Testing
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Private Donor
    Role:
  • Date:
    2019 - 2020
    Title:
    ICTR Voucher Program Award
    Sponsoring Organization:
    UMB ICTR Genomic Research Center: Microbiome Service Lab
    Role:
    Multiple Principal Investigator
  • Date:
    2019 - 2020
    Title:
    Research Facilitation Award
    Sponsoring Organization:
    BBAL Research Center
    Role:
  • Date:
    2022 - 2023
    Title:
    Summer 2022 Research Facilitation Grant for PEACH
    Sponsoring Organization:
    UMSON BBAL Research Center
    Role:
    Co-Investigator

Research Interests

  • Pesticide exposure
    Children's Environmental Health
    Early childhood learning environments

Research Activity

  • Duration:
    2011 - 2012
    Title:
    Analysis of Eco-Healthy Child Care Program Data
    Description:
    UMSON DRIF Funding
    Status:
    Complete
  • Duration:
    2014 - 2015
    Title:
    Pesticide Monitoring on Soccer Fields via Wipe and Urine Samples
    Description:
    UMSON BBAL DRIF and FCH Funding
    Status:
    Complete
  • Duration:
    2015 - Current
    Title:
    Evaluation of presence of environmental hazards in preschools
    Status:
    On-Going
  • Duration:
    2015 - Current
    Title:
    Evaluation of program to educate preschool staff about environmental hazards
    Status:
    Complete
  • Duration:
    2016 - Current
    Title:
    Evaluation of relationship of biomarkers for exposure to wheeze in young children
    Status:
    Complete
  • Duration:
    2023 - Current
    Title:
    IPEC Seed Grant: Climate Change and Health Equity in Maryland: An Interprofessional Education Collaboration
    Description:
    Through this grant, our multidisciplinary Climate Change and Health Equity in Maryland collaboration aims – as a first step – to address this educational gap by developing and implementing a Climate and Health Equity course, which will empower students from professional tracks across UMB and UMCP to take greater responsibility for addressing societal problems arising from climate change through analysis and action. The course will be followed up with a culminating symposium focused on real-world, practical solutions for communities in the Baltimore metro area.
    Status:
    On-Going

Publications

  • Gilden, R. C., Friedmann, E., Sattler, B., Squibb, K. & McPhaul, K. (2012, May 1). Potential health effects related to pesticide use on athletic fields.. Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.), 29 (3), 198-207. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1446.2012.01016.x
  • Gilden, R. C., McElroy, K., Friedmann, E., Witherspoon, N. O. & Paul, H. (2015, March 1). Evaluation of the Children's Environmental Health Network's environmental stewardship checklist responses.. Journal of environmental health, 77 (7), 22-8.
  • Gilden, R. C., Plisko, M., Hiteshew, K., Friedmann, E. & Milton, D. (2016, May). Pesticide monitoring on soccer fields via shoe wipes and urine samples. Environmental Research, 147, 294-296. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2016.02.027
  • Gilden, R. C., McElroy, K., Friedmann, E., Spanier, A., Son, H., Obot Witherspoon, N., et al (2018). Train-the-Trainer Approach in the Eco-Healthy Child Care® Program.. Health Behav Policy Rev.™, 5 (2), 59-65. doi:10.14485/HBPR.5.2.6
  • Spanier, A. J., McLaine, P. L. & Gilden, R. C. (2019, April (2nd Quarter/Spring)). Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children and Pregnant Women. no, Journal of the American Medical Association.
  • Gilden, R. C., Friedmann, E., Holmes, K., Yolton, K., Xu, Y., Lanphear, B., et al (2020, September 30). Gestational Pesticide Exposure and Child Respiratory Health.. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17 (19). doi:10.3390/ijerph17197165
  • Indoor air quality monitoring in Baltimore City, MD head start centers.. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-021-03785-2
  • Gilden, R. C. (2022, May). PESTICIDES AND CHILD VULNERABILITIES. Environmental Health in Nursing, 2nd Ed. Rockville, MD.
  • Systematic review: Association of pesticide exposure and child wheeze and asthma. Current Pediatric Reviews, 19 (2), 169 – 178. doi:10.2174/1573396318666220510124457
  • Gestational and Early Childhood Pesticide Exposure and Child Neurobehavioral Health: A Literature Review. Neurotoxicology.

Presentations

  • Year:
    2011
    Title:
    Potential Health Effects Related to Pesticide Use on Athletic Fields
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
    Location:
    Washington DC
  • Year:
    2012
    Title:
    Preliminary Data Analysis of the Eco-Healthy Child Care Program Checklist and Train-the-Trainer Program.
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
    Location:
    San Francisco CA
  • Year:
    2014
    Title:
    Pesticide Monitoring on Soccer Fields Via Wipe and Urine Samples.
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
    Location:
    New Orleans LA
  • Year:
    2015
    Title:
    Pesticide Monitoring on Soccer Fields Via Wipe and Urine Samples.
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    National Environmental Health Association Conference
    Location:
    Orlando FL
  • Year:
    2017
    Title:
    Nurses at the forefront of climate change education and solutions.
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
    Location:
    Atlanta GA
  • Year:
    2018
    Title:
    Building a Culture of Health in Baltimore City Early Head Start
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    MD Action Coalition
    Location:
    Baltimore MD United States
  • Year:
    2018
    Title:
    Gestational pesticide exposure and child respiratory health
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    American Public Health Association
    Sponsoring Organization:
    American Public Health Association
    Location:
    San Diego CA United States
  • Year:
    2020
    Title:
    Climate Change and Environmental Health at UMSON
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    GCCHE Quarterly Member Webinar
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education
    Location:
    United States
  • Year:
    2022
    Title:
    Planetary Health Nursing for Justice and Health Equity: A Call to Action
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    Midwest Nursing Research Society Annual Conference
    Location:
    Chicago IL United States
  • Year:
    2022
    Title:
    State-wide Expansion of a Public Health School Nurse Model in Low-Income Child-Care Centers in Maryland
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    American Public Health Association Meeting and Expo
    Sponsoring Organization:
    American Public Health Association
    Location:
    Boston MA United States

Areas of Specialization

  • Environmental Health

Primary Teaching Areas

  • Environmental Health I
    Advanced Environmental Health
    Applied Toxicology
    Public Health for the Registered Nurse

Media Appearances and Interviews

  • Title:
    Healthy Air Act
    Name:
    MD General Assembly
    Type:
    Other
    Date:
    2006
  • Title:
    No More Toxic Tub
    Name:
    WBFF Fox 45
    Type:
    TV
    Date:
    2009
  • Title:
    Child Safe Playing Fields
    Name:
    MD House of Delegates
    Type:
    Other
    Date:
    2015
  • Title:
    Nontherapeutic Use of Antimicrobial Drugs in Cattle, Swine and Poultry and Antibiotic Drug Usage - Food-Producing Animals
    Name:
    MD General Assembly
    Type:
    Other
    Date:
    2017
  • Title:
    Pesticides-Use, Release, Sale and Purchase Reporting
    Name:
    MD General Assembly
    Type:
    Other
    Date:
    2013
  • Title:
    Support for the Clean Power Plan on behalf of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE)
    Name:
    Hearing for US Environmental Protection Agency at MD General Assembly
    Type:
    Other
    Date:
    2018
  • Title:
    Who Cares - We Do: Keeping Children Out of Harm’s Way
    Name:
    UMSON Office of Research
    Type:
    Internet
    Date:
    July 2017

Honors/Awards

  • Name:
    Doctoral Merit Scholar
    Date:
    2006
  • Name:
    UMSON Alumni Association Award, Outstanding PhD Graduate
    Date:
    2010
  • Name:
    Daily Record Leading Woman Under 40
    Date:
    December 2015

Academic and Professional Activities

University

  • Date:
    2010 - Current
    Organization:
    Community Public Health Master's Admissions Committee
    Role:
    Member
  • Date:
    2013 - Current
    Organization:
    Green SON Team
    Role:
    Co-Chair
  • Date:
    2021 - 2023
    Organization:
    AACN Essentials Curriculum Revision Committee
    Role:
    Post-Bachelor's Certificate Representative
  • Date:
    2021 - 2024
    Organization:
    Campus-wide Engagement and Education Sustainability Sub-Committee
    Role:
    Co-Chair
  • Date:
    2010 - Current
    Organization:
    Community Public Health Master's Admissions Committee
    Role:
    Member
  • Date:
    2023 - Current
    Organization:
    Community Public Health Faculty Interview Committee
    Role:
    Member
  • Date:
    2023 - Current
    Organization:
    PhD Curriculum Committee
    Role:
    Member

Professional

  • Date:
    2020 - Current
    Organization:
    American Public Health Association Environment Section
    Role:
    Governing Councilor
  • Date:
    2019 - Current
    Organization:
    Salisbury University College of Health and Human Services
    Role:
    Board of Advisors
  • Date:
    2015 - Current
    Organization:
    Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
    Role:
    Committee Member
  • Date:
    2015 - Current
    Organization:
    Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education
    Role:
    Committee Member
  • Organization:
    American Journal of Nursing
    Role:
    Manuscript Reviewer/Referee
  • Organization:
    Public Health Nursing
    Role:
    Manuscript Reviewer/Referee
  • Organization:
    IJERPH
    Role:
    Manuscript Reviewer/Referee
  • Organization:
    Environmental Research
    Role:
    Manuscript Reviewer/Referee
  • Date:
    2010 - 2017
    Organization:
    US Environmental Protection Agency Pesticide Program Dialog Committee
    Role:
    Committee Member
  • Date:
    2015 - 2023
    Organization:
    MD Keep Antibiotics Working
    Role:
    Committee Member

Public

  • Date:
    2003 - 2012
    Organization:
    Carroll County Commissioners Environmental Advisory Council
    Role:
    Committee Member