June Gorski DrPH, CHES
(University of California, Los
Angeles – UCLA) 
Dr. June Gorski is a tenured professor of public health and health
education with teaching responsibilities for both undergraduate
and graduate courses. As a Certified Health Education Specialist
(CHES), she is involved with the professional preparation and advising
of graduate students who selected the Community Health Education
concentration for the Master of Public Health degree. As
faculty coordinator for the adolescent health minor and select
health service courses, she collaborates with graduate teaching
associates and faculty. Also, she chairs doctoral committees
and to date has served on twenty-four dissertation committees. Since
1993 she has been elected to chair the Public Health Academic Program
Committee (PHAPC) that facilities the accredited MPH degree program. Additionally,
in the department Dr. Gorski is an Associate to the UT Safety Center
and an Academic Anchor for the Society for Public Health Education.
During her career, Dr. Gorski has received prestigious awards from
the University of Tennessee National Alumni Association as the
Outstanding Teacher and for Outstanding Public Service. She
was honored as the recipient of the UT Chancellor’s Award
for Excellence in Teaching and by the Commission for Women at UTK
who recognized her with the Woman of Achievement Award. For
her contributions to Tennessee and her local chapter of Delta Kappa
Gamma Society International, she was presented with the Order of
the Rose Award. She is a life member of the health science
honorary, Eta Sigma Gamma, and the Tennessee Public Health Association. Tennessee
Donor Services acknowledged her dedication and support of organ/tissue
donation by presenting her with the Scholastic Achievement Award. In
1995 an endowment was established, The Dr. June D. Gorski Scholarship,
to recognize public health and health education students who demonstrate
commitment to further the mission of “healthy people in healthy
communities.”
Dr. Gorski teaches a variety of courses including: Health of adolescents; women’s health; death, dying, and bereavement; health instruction for elementary grades; principles and practices of community health education; program planning for community health; international health; and, the public health internships for health educators. She has had advising responsibilities for more than 450 MPH graduates who studied community health education.
Her applied research interests have focused on the health needs of children, adolescents, and women. She has published in state, national, and international refereed journals. The topics have been on interpersonal violence among youth, strategies for health education, teacher’s health, health care, death education, and safety of adolescent workers. She collaborated with co-principal investigators on funded research from the CDC for reducing childhood lead poisoning and for profiling child fatalities in Tennessee. The Tennessee Department of Education invited Dr. Gorski to present at the Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco (PANTS) Health Institutes and to work on the statewide initiative for Coordinated School Health.
Recent
Publications
Findley, M., Smith, S., Gorski, J. and O’Neil M. (October 2007) Safety climate differences among job positions in a nuclear decommissioning and demolition industry: Employees’ self-reported safety attitudes and perceptions. Safety Science, 46 (8), 875-889.
Nelms, L. W. and Gorski, J. (April 2006) The role of the African traditional healer in women’s health. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 17(2), 184-189.
Findley, M. and Gorski, J. (April 2005). OSH disparities in developing countries: The safety, health, and environmental professional as an agent of change. Professional Safety 24-30.
Petty, G., Smith, S., Gorski, J. and Hamilton, C. (2005-2006). Child Fatality Report 2004, Tennessee Department of Health, State of Tennessee.
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