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Joe E. Beck, RS. DAAS Professor Beck, Eastern Kentucky University, holds an undergraduate degree in biology with concentrations in chemistry and geology and a graduate degree from the University of Illinois in Public Administration and Political Science. He earned 120 hours of Preventive Medicine training from the United States Army Medical School at Fort Sam Houston and their advanced certificate. He holds the current position, of Professor Environmental Health Science and has held past positions as a Senior Research Staff Scientist and project manager at the Pacific Northwest laboratory, Battelle, and other past positions as academic Department Head of Environmental Sciences and Health and field practice positions with the Illinois Department of Public Health and the McCracken County Health Department in Kentucky. He also has served as a full graduate faculty member in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Western Carolina University and as a Graduate Faculty of Washington State University School of Business. He has served numerous terms on the National Council on Accreditation of Environmental Health Sciences Curricula and several as its past Chair. Professor Beck has been a member of the Academy of Sanitarians since 1982 and has also served as its Chair. He has also served as Past environmental advisor to the Governor of North Carolina, chair of the North Carolina Solid and Hazardous Council and served on the North Carolina Department of Crime Controls Emergency Response Personnel Standards Committee. He has taught environmental health science & political science and public policy courses at the university level for over thirty years. Served as a Visiting Professor to Business School, Washington State University, School of Business, teaching upper division course in strategic planning and lower division introduction to management course. As a part of National Laboratory assignments he conducted strategic planning, leadership training and education for both university and corporate clients. As a result of his research efforts he developed a unique, quicker, better, cheaper (QBC) planning process known as “Stakeholder- Focused Strategic Planning;” it is a process designed for high conflict, turf-sensitive organizations. The process has been used for development of strategic plans that include hundreds of both public and private organizations including the Department of Energy, World Trade Center, Departments of State Government, Educational Facilities and International Clients. He has worked as a scientific public interface for environmental health issues impacting on the public for over 30 years involving risk communications and assessment issues. Professor Beck served as a mediator and arbitrator for the Governor and Lt. Governor of North Carolina in disputes between the regulatory system and impacted parties and has also conducted mediation and arbitration sessions between employees and industries. He has extensive cross cultural communication skills and experience with multiple minority cultures in the public policy arena. Professor Beck also has worked extensively with American Indian tribes as a consultant on public policy and environmental issues. Recent works include development of the Healthy Homes Housng Manual and a self training computer housing inspection program (Hazard Assessment & Reduction Program, HARP) for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Renewal and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources (Centers for Disease Control), Chapters in the following Text books, Environmental Health, MT Morgan, Chapter 12 on Housing, and Public Health Principles and Practice, D. Scutchfield, Chapter on Environmental Health Practice, also a home study course for the Center for Disease Control, entitled "Environmental Health Sciences," a second edition to a book designed for preparing entry level professionals for their national licensure exam and numerous management articles for the Occupational Health and Safety Magazine. He has served as a subject matter expert to NEHA on development of their REHS exams since the early 1980’s and developed a considerable part of the the professional registry exam for Kentucky Sanitarians and has serve as an associate editor for the Illinois environmental health journal and the Kentucky Journal and on the editorial board of Occupational Health and Safety Maginzine. He was a chair for the Institutional Environmental Health Section for NEHA for nearly a decade and served as an advisor to the Student National Environmental Health organization. He has achieved three patents on new products, written parts of five books and authored over two hundered and fifty articles and papers presented both nationally and internationally. One of his research works on the role of values in decision making is currently being used in the development of artificial intelegence (AI) programs in the computer industry. From 1984 to 1988, Professor Beck served as co-chairman with Vice President George Bush on his Task Force on Environment and Health and advised then Vice-President and later President Bush on environmental health policy issues related to high level nuclear waste disposal. Recently Professor Beck played a major role in the creation of the National Council On Diversity in Environmental Health (N-CODE Health) which is composed of many of our most outstanding national leaders in the profession whose mission is to promote diversity in the profession. Joe has won numerious awards for both his teaching and for his quality of work on both a local and national level. He is also a graduate level gemologist and enjoyes finding and cutting rare stones. Classes I teach: EHS – 425 Planning
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