Shelby Gordon

Shelby Paige Gordon (she/they) is a PhD student in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. She completed her B.S. in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and holds an M.P.H. in Population and Family Health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Shelby additionally has experience working in crisis response and prevention services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Currently, her interests lie in increasing sexual and reproductive health education for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and integrating implementation science into the field of disability studies.

Education

• M.P.H., Population and Family Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2022
• B.S., Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, 2018

Professional Experience

• Illinois LEND Research Fellow, University of Illinois Chicago, 2024-2025
• Paraprofessional, Exceptional Learners Collaborative, 2024-2025
• NYSTART/CSIDD Clinical Coordinator, Services for the Underserved, 2022-2023
• Graduate Student Intern, United Nations Population Fund, 2020
• Graduate Student Intern, James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC, 2020
• AmeriCorps Member, AmeriCorps National and Community Service, 2018-2019

Recent Honors and Awards

• Unidel Graduate Scholar Award, University of Delaware, 2025-present
• Fighter Scholarship, The Quell Foundation, 2019-2020
• Segal AmeriCorps Education Award, National and Community Service, 2019
• Chinese Government Scholarship for Visiting Scholar, Beijing Sport University, 2018

Publications

• Yu, Miao, Yin Wu, Shelby Paige Gordon, Jiali Cheng, Panpan Chen, Yangyang Wang, and Hongjun Yu. 2021. “Objectively Measured Association between Air Pollution and Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior in College Students in Beijing.” Environmental Research 194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.110492.
• Mohd Hajaraih, Syahidatul Khafizah, Shelby P Gordon, and Karen M Tabb. 2019. “Health Outcomes Among Garment Workers in Low-Middle Income Countries: A Scoping Review.” Women’s Health Bulletin 6, no. 3. https://doi.org/10.5812/whb.91127.
• Yu, Hongjun, Panpan Chen, Shelby Paige Gordon, Miao Yu, and Yangyang Wang. 2019. “The Association between Air Pollution and Sleep Duration: A Cohort Study of Freshmen at a University in Beijing, China.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 18: 3362. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183362.
• Yu, Hongjun, Jiali Cheng, Shelby Paige Gordon, Ruopeng An, Miao Yu, Xiaodan Chen, Qingli Yue, and Jun Qiu. 2018. “Impact of Air Pollution on Sedentary Behavior: A Cohort Study of Freshmen at a University in Beijing, China.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 12: 2811. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15122811.
• Yu, Hongjun, Miao Yu, Shelby Paige Gordon, and Ruiling Zhang. 2017. “The Association between Ambient Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Physical Activity: A Cohort Study of University Students Living in Beijing.” The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 14, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-017-0592-x.

Presentations

• Gordon, S. P. & Mohd Hajaraih, S. K. (2017). Health outcomes among garment workers in low-middle income countries: a scoping review. Poster session presented at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, Champaign, IL.
• Gordon, S. P. (2016). Increasing attention to immigration rights and language in the United States. Invited poster session presented to legislators at The University of Illinois Research Day: Posters Under the Dome, Springfield, IL.
• Gordon, S. P. (2016). Increasing attention to immigration rights and language in the United States. Poster session presented at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, Champaign, IL.