Background
Gotsch, Audrey Rose was born on May 30, 1939 in Milwaukee. Daughter of Carlos Louis and Florence Olga (Clausing) Grandy.
researcher Environmental health sciences educator
Gotsch, Audrey Rose was born on May 30, 1939 in Milwaukee. Daughter of Carlos Louis and Florence Olga (Clausing) Grandy.
Bachelor of Science, Indiana University, 1963. Master in Public Health, University Michigan, 1966. Doctor of Public Health, CHES, Columbia University, 1976.
Private practice as dental hygienist, Lafayette, Indiana, 1962-1963;
private practice as dental hygienist, Springfield, Illinois, 1963-1965;
health educator, Illinois Department Health, Springfield, 1966-1967;
health educator, New Jersey State Department Health, Trenton, 1968;
associate professor, chief department environmental and community medicine, U. Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, 1978-1993;
professor department environmental and community medicine, U. Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, since 1993;
acting chair department environmental and community medicine, U. Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, 1994-1995;
vice-chair department environmental and community medicine, U. Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, since 1997;
director public education and risk committee division, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, since 1983. Consultant National Hospice Demonstration Programs, 1980, Hospice of Control New York, Syracuse, 1980, National Cancer Institute, since 1981, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, 1983, Medcom, Inc., California, 1985, National Institutes of Health, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., since 1985, and others. Associate member graduate faculty, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1984.
Member Outreach Task Force, The Cancer Institute New Jersey, since 1991. Associate member Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers, 1992. Councilor, Council on Education for Public Health, 1990-1996, president 1993-1996.
Chair educational programs committee Environmental Health Foundation, since 1995. Member steering committee Cmty. Environmental Health Assessment, NACCHO and National Center Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 1995.
Chair school health education committee National Center for Health Education, 1997. Member of advisory board Joint National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Institutes of Health Office of Science Education Project.
Member New Jersey Public Health Council, Trenton, since 1987, secretary, 1992-1994, 2001-2002, vice chair, 1994-1996, chair, 1996-1998. Member task force Governor's Conference on Aging, 1980-1981. Member State Health Planning Board, since 1996.
Board governors School Public Health Alumni Society, University Michigan, since 1996. Board directors National Center for Health Education. Member American Public Health Association (president-elect 1998-1999, Distinguished Career award 1996, Recognition award for leadership to APHA's First Satellite Broadcast 2000), Association for Social Sciences in Health, Association Teachers Preventive Medicine, Society for Public Health Education (subcommittee on environmental outreach and service Greater New York and New Jersey chapters), International Union for Health Education, Society Toxicology (Public Communications award 1997), National Hospice Organization, New Jersey Hospice Organization (board trustees 1980-1982), New Jersey Public Health Association (state health planning board since 1996, Dennis J. Sullivan award 1997), Society for Risk Analysis, Royal Society Health (honorary), Sigma Xi, Sigma Phi Alpha, Delta Omega.
Married Thomas Gotsch, June 20, 1959. Children: Christine Anne Robinson, Allison Lorraine.