Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Announces 2024-2025 CLF-Lerner Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Recipients
Nov 07, 2024
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) is delighted to announce the awarding of three pre-doctoral fellowships for the 2024-2025 academic year.
The Center for Livable Future-Lerner Fellowship program was established in 2003 and named in honor of public health advocates, Helaine and Sid Lerner. This fellowship supports doctoral students in their exploration of innovative and impactful solutions to address today’s most pressing public health and food systems challenges. Each CLF-Lerner Fellow receives four years of financial support for tuition, stipend, and research. Fellows are also afforded ongoing enrichment opportunities such as a journal club, trainings, meetings with field leaders in food systems and public health, and networking with current and former fellows.
The 2024-2025 recipients of CLF-Lerner Fellowships are:
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Natalie Armstrong, MHS, a PhD student in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
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Charles Bakin, MS, a PhD student in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
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Elizabeth Chatpar, ScM, a PhD student in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
“We are delighted to welcome Natalie, Charles, and Elizabeth to the CLF-Lerner fellowship program,” said CLF Director, Shawn McKenzie. “We look forward to seeing how their diverse backgrounds, expertise, and unique perspectives will enhance our research and help further the mission of CLF!”
Doctoral students from all JHU divisions are eligible to apply for the CLF-Lerner Fellowship program. A request for applications for the 2025-2026 academic year fellowships will be released by the end of this year. As part of the request, CLF will seek excellent candidates for a fellowship track named in honor of Steve Wing that focuses on applying the principles of community-based participatory research in partnership with community organizations that are addressing the environmental justice and health implications of industrial food animal production. More information about the CLF-Lerner Fellowship can be found on the Center’s website.