The 2025-26 Goldstein Award - Public Health Practice
Students and Postdocs: If you're working or studying in an area related to public health practice, apply for a $2,000 scholarship to help defray the cost of opportunities to enhance your training as a public health practicioner, such as:
- tuition
- conference travel
- professional organization membership
- textbooks
- supplemental training such as public speaking or scientific writing
Eligibility & Award Details
Any degree-seeking student or postdoctoral fellow at Pitt Public Health in 2026 who is working or studying in an area related to public health practice with a faculty sponsor engaged in practice work is eligible to apply.
Recipients may use the award to defray the costs of opportunities that would enhance their training as a public health practitioner. The applicant must detail the use of the award in the application. One scholarship will be awarded in the amount of $2,000.
Application Guidelines
Students interested in applying must submit an application with the following materials:
- Faculty contact information denoting sponsoring faculty working in public health practice
- A brief project overview describing the public health practice project or course of study that the applicant has undertaken
The project overview should be no longer than four typed pages, 12-point font, double-spaced. It should include the following sections:
- Background - How does the project or course of study address an important environmental public health equity problem/issue? Include methods used, data and literature to support project rationale
- Project goals and objectives - What will the project or course of study do to address this problem?
- Relevance to public health practice - How does the project or course of study advance the cause of public health practice?
- Budget justification - How will awarded funds be used?
The application deadline is Friday, February 27, 2026, and awards will be announced mid-March. Award winners will be notified by letter.
Review Criteria
A panel of the Pitt Public Health faculty will review the applications and make the decision. Awards will be made based upon the applicant’s proposal, the appropriateness of the project, and whether the applicant is working on a project with a faculty member who has is engaged in practice-related work.
Sponsoring Faculty
Please specify your faculty sponsor who can speak to the public health practice-based nature of your environmental work and relevance to the advancement of health equity research and practice.
Background
The Goldstein award was established in 2005 by then dean and professor of environmental and occupational health, Bernard Goldstein, and his wife Russellyn Carruth, an adjunct professor in environmental and occupational health. The award serves to support students and postdoctoral fellows at the School of Public Health working in either environmental health disparities or public health practice.
The award is available annually, alternating between those two areas, and is awarded to eligible students through a competitive application process.