Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Email
Preferred: mike.gorman@sjsu.edu
Telephone
Preferred: (408) 924-5812
Office Hours
Tu 1:30--3:00 ; We 4:30-6:00
E Michael (Mike) Gorman is an Associate Professor in the SJSU School of Social Work
(SSW) , College of the Applied Sciences & the Arts (SASA) , where he teaches policy
and research courses in the graduate (MSW) program. Dr Gorman's Ph.D. is in medical
anthropology and he subsequently did an MPH in epidemiology prior to entering social
work. A major focus of his career has been HIV and substance abuse (SA) , including
HIV and SA in LGBT communities. He is also is three time Fulbright Scholar awardee
(Tunisia ~2005, Jordan & Oman ~ 2009 , Argentina~2012 ) and is very engaged by global
social work and human rights issues. .He developed and led the SSW Argentina course
from 2006-2011 and is developing a new initiative for Spain in 2014.
Education
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Doctor of Philosophy, Univ Of Chicago, 1980
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Master of Social Work, Social Welfare, Univ Of Cal-Berkeley, California, United States,
1994
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Master of Public Health, Public Health Certificate, Univ Of Cal-Berkeley, California,
United States, 1982
Bio
E Michael Gorman Ph.D.,MPH, MSW Associate Professor of Social Work . Dr Gorman completed
his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in social and medical anthropology and completed
additional training in public health (epidemiology) and social welfare at the University
of California, Berkeley. He served in the United States Public Health Service at the
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA. In 2006 he was named
Scholar of the Year by the College of Applied Siences and the Arts
for his scholarship on drug use. He has published number of scholarly articles, and
presentations at more than 30 conferences including the Internal AIDS Conference,
the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) , the Society for Social Work REsearch
(SSWR) , a number of US Public Health Conferences Dr Gorman has received three Fulbright
scholar awards : 2 core Fulbrights (Council on the International Exchange of Scholars
~ CIES ) Tunisia ( 2005 ) and Argentina (2012) He also received a Fulbright-Hays
Award for Jordan and Oman in 2009. During the course of his tenure at San Jose State
he has received several US Public Health Service grant awards , including an R01
by National Institutes of Health (NIH) He has served on editorial boards of a number
of scholarly journals , and reviewed publications for approximately seven other journals
in the health and health science fields. He developed and led the SJSU SSW Argentina
course from 2006-2011 and is anticipating leading a new course in Spain in 2014 .
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