The 2024 Goldstein Award - Environmental Health Disparities
Students and Postdocs: If you're working or studying in an area related to environmental health disparities, apply for a $2,000 scholarship to help defray the cost of opportunities to enhance your training as a health equity scholar, such as:
- tuition
- conference travel
- professional organization membership
- textbooks
- supplemental training such as public speaking or scientific writing
Award Details
In 2024, any degree-seeking student enrolled in Pitt Public Health or postdoctoral fellow at the school who is working or studying in an area related to environmental health disparities with a faculty sponsor who can speak to the environmental health equity applicability of the work is eligible to apply.
Recipients may use the award to defray the costs of opportunities that would enhance their training as a health equity scholar. The applicant must defend 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 affiliated with the Center for Health Equity
- A brief project overview describing the environmental health equity project or course of study that the applicant has undertaken - see EPA project examples
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 environmental health disparities - how does the project or course of study advance the cause/field of environmental health justice?
- Budget justification - how will awarded funds be used?
The application deadline is Friday, November 18, 2024, and awards will be announced mid-December. Award winners will be notified by letter.
Review Criteria
A panel composed of the Pitt Public Health dean (or the associate dean for academic affairs), the director of the Center for Health Equity, and at least one additional faculty member from the School of Public Health 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 an association with the Center for Health Equity.
Sponsoring Faculty
Please specify your faculty sponsor who can speak to the health equity-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.
