Health Policy and Management Professor Emeritus Beaufort B. Longest, Jr. died January 17, 2025, following a brief and sudden illness.
Longest joined the University of Pittsburgh in 1980 from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He was a University of Pittsburgh faculty member from 1980 until 2016 when he retired as emeritus faculty member in Health Policy and Management. Beaufort was the M. Allen Pond Professor and founding director of the University's Health Policy Institute which continues to shape health policy and practice today.
Longest’s scholarship on issues of health policy and management generated substantial grant support for the Health Policy Institute and the School of Public Health. He was a prodigious author of health care policy and management textbooks, chapters and articles. His widely used textbook Health Policymaking in the United States, now in its 7th edition, continues to serve as the backbone of HPM’s core course for MPH students.
Longest was a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and held memberships in the Academy of Management, AcademyHealth, American Public Health Association, and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. He held the unusual distinction of having been elected to membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society in Business as well as in the Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health. His work will have a lasting impact on the department and field.
He is survived by his wife Carolyn; their sons Beaufort, III and Courtland and was preceded in death by their daughter Carolyn “Lyn,” in 1972.
There will be no visitation. The funeral and interment will be private.
-Mike Friend