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

  • Title:
    Analysis of Eco-Healthy Child Care Program Data
    Sponsoring Organization:
    University of Maryland School of Nursing
    Role:
    Principal
  • Title:
    Pesticide Monitoring on Soccer Fields via Wipe and Urine Samples
    Sponsoring Organization:
    University of Maryland School of Nursing
    Role:
    Principal
  • Title:
    Creating an IPE Climate Change Elective
    Sponsoring Organization:
    MADE CLEAR Climate Change
    Role:
    Principal
  • Title:
    Community and Public Health Environmental Initiative
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Funding received from Mary Catherine Bunting Foundation
    Role:
    Supporting
  • Title:
    Determining the Contribution of Pesticides to Asthma in Children
    Sponsoring Organization:
    University of Maryland School of Nursing
    Role:
    Principal
  • Title:
    Baltimore City Lead Testing
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Private Donor
    Role:
  • Title:
    Summer 2022 Research Facilitation Grant for PEACH
    Sponsoring Organization:
    UMSON BBAL Research Center
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
  • Title:
    Garden Project for Community Public Health and Environment Initiative
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Private Donor
    Role:
  • Title:
    Climate Change and Health Equity in Maryland: An Interprofessional Education Collaboration
    Sponsoring Organization:
    UMB IPEC Seed Grant
    Role:
    Co-Principal
  • Title:
    Community and Public Health Environmental Initiative
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Bunting Foundation
    Role:
    Co-Principal

Research Interests

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

Research Activity

  • Title:
    Analysis of Eco-Healthy Child Care Program Data
    Description:
    UMSON DRIF Funding
    Status:
    Complete
  • Title:
    Pesticide Monitoring on Soccer Fields via Wipe and Urine Samples
    Description:
    UMSON BBAL DRIF and FCH Funding
    Status:
    Complete
  • Title:
    Evaluation of presence of environmental hazards in preschools
    Status:
    On-Going
  • Title:
    Evaluation of program to educate preschool staff about environmental hazards
    Status:
    Complete
  • Title:
    Evaluation of relationship of biomarkers for exposure to wheeze in young children
    Status:
    Complete
  • 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
  • Title:
    IPEC Sustaining Grant: Climate Change, Health and Society Curriculum in Maryland: An Interprofessional Education Collaboration
    Description:
    We intend to use Sustaining Grant funds to:1. Support the October 2024 UMB/UMCP climate change symposium for our campus and community, emphasizing solutions to the problems resulting in Baltimore and State of Maryland.2. Create a fall speaker series to offer on-going education and information to the campus and surrounding community on climate change actions in Baltimore/Maryland.3. Further develop a Climate Change, Health and Society curriculum as part of the MEES graduate program, which will empower students from professional tracks across the USM to take greater responsibility for addressing societal problems arising from climate change through analysis and action.
    Status:
    On-Going
  • Title:
    Community and Public Health Environmental Initiative
    Description:
    Mary Catherine Bunting Foundation
    Status:
    On-Going

Publications

  • 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., 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. & Gilden, R. C. (2019, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 16). Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children and Pregnant Women. Journal of the American Medical Association, 321 (15), 1464. American Medical Association (AMA). doi:10.1001/jama.2019.2594
  • 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.
  • Gilden, R. C., Harris, R. L., Friedmann, E. J., Han, M., Hackney, A. J., Olorunyemi, E., et al. (2023, May). Systematic review: Association of pesticide exposure and child wheeze and asthma. Current Pediatric Reviews, 19 (2), 169-178. Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.. doi:10.2174/1573396318666220510124457
  • Gestational and Early Childhood Pesticide Exposure and Child Neurobehavioral Health: A Literature Review. Neurotoxicology.
  • Russ, K. (2024). Creating an interprofessional consortium on climate and health for higher education as a step toward a sustainable future. . North American and European Perspectives on Sustainability in Higher Education.. Springer.

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:
    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:
    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
  • Year:
    2024
    Title:
    Climate change and health equity in Maryland: An interprofessional education collaboration.
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    Center for IPE Seed Grant Symposium.
    Sponsoring Organization:
    UMB Interprofessional Education Center
    Location:
    Baltimore MD United States
  • Year:
    2025
    Title:
    Climate change and health equity in Maryland: An interprofessional education collaboration.
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit.
    Sponsoring Organization:
    2nd Nature
    Location:
    Washington DC 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:
    Cars and Cancer
    Type:
    Other
    Date:
    2006
  • 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
  • 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

  • Organization:
    Community Public Health Master's Admissions Committee
    Role:
    Member
  • Organization:
    Green SON Team
    Role:
    Co-Chair
  • Organization:
    Student Affairs Committee
    Role:
    Member
  • Organization:
    PhD Curriculum Committee
    Role:
    Member
  • Organization:
    Campus-wide Engagement and Education Sustainability Sub-Committee
    Role:
    Co-Chair
  • Organization:
    Leadership Academy for Climate Change, Health, and Society
    Role:
    Co-Chair, Symposium Producer

Professional

  • Organization:
    American Public Health Association Environment Section
    Role:
    Governing Councilor
  • Organization:
    Salisbury University College of Health and Human Services
    Role:
    Board of Advisors
  • Organization:
    Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
    Role:
    Committee Member
  • Organization:
    Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education
    Role:
    Committee Member
  • Organization:
    American Journal of Nursing
    Role:
    Manuscript Reviewer/Referee
  • Organization:
    US Environmental Protection Agency Pesticide Program Dialog Committee
    Role:
    Committee Member
  • Organization:
    MD Keep Antibiotics Working
    Role:
    Committee Member
  • Organization:
    Salisbury University College of Health and Human Services
    Role:
    Board of Advisors
  • Organization:
    Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Mid-Atlantic Regional Co-Chair
    Role:
    Committee Chair
  • Organization:
    Action Board, American Public Health Association
    Role:
    Committee Member

Public

  • Organization:
    Carroll County Commissioners Environmental Advisory Council
    Role:
    Committee Member
  • Organization:
    American Red Cross Blood Drive Coordinator
    Role:
    Volunteer
  • Organization:
    MD Emergency Response Corps
    Role:
    Member