The School’s teaching and mentoring awards recognize and celebrate faculty, staff and teaching assistants who enhance the quality of education and student experience at Harvard Chan.
If you have any questions about any of the below awards, please reach out to Michael Byrne at oed@hsph.harvard.edu.
For the names of past award recipients, please visit this page.
Learn about the School’s teaching and mentoring awards that recognize and celebrate faculty, staff and teaching assistants who enhance the quality of education and student experience at Harvard Chan.
Faculty Awards and Recognition
The Roger L. Nichols Excellence in Teaching Award is awarded to a member of the Harvard T.H. Chan School primary faculty who has enhanced the quality of education in public health by honoring outstanding achievement in teaching at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The award recognizes excellence in classroom instruction, capacity to inspire students, and dedication to teaching.
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Teaching citations are awarded to course instructors based on student course evaluations, particularly questions that assess teaching quality and teaching effectiveness.
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Established through the generosity of Dr. Srinivas Sastry, the Sri Sastry Award for Inspired Teaching of Public Health recognizes up to two faculty members each academic year for their significant impact on students and the ways they have, through excellent teaching, inspired students to reach their public health goals. Individuals will receive $10,000 in celebration of their significant impact on students.
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Mentoring awards are based on student nominations and recognize faculty members or instructors who have enriched the academic, professional, or personal development of students.
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Teaching Fellow Awards
TF awards recognize the important contributions of teaching assistants to education at Harvard Chan, and are based on student course evaluations.
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Student Awards
A certificate to one or more graduating students whose past work and current activities exemplify a reverence for life and who have sought, as expressed by Schweitzer, “to make my life my argument.”
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- Jemar Ryan Bather, PhD ’23
Awarded each year to an outstanding graduating student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who is dedicated to promoting the health of vulnerable people.
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