Alumni Association Awards
About the Awards
Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award
Harriet Hylton Barr
Established in 1975, the Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes the achievements of alumni and their contributions to public health. Each year, it honors a deserving graduate of the School working full-time in public health or in a related field.
The award carries the name of its 1980 recipient, the late Harriet Hylton Barr, to honor her contributions to public health. Barr, who earned her MPH from UNC in 1948, dedicated 28 years of service to the School. She was a clinical associate professor in the Department of Health Behavior and she was the School’s first director of alumni affairs. For a list of past recipients, and to read more about Harriett Hylton Barr, please visit the Barr Award page.
Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award
Bernard Greenberg
The Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award was established in 1986 by the School’s Alumni Association in honor of Bernard Greenberg, PhD, a visionary leader who founded the Department of Biostatistics in 1949 which he led for more than 20 years before going on to serve as dean of the School of Public Health from 1972-1982. The award is presented to an outstanding full-time faculty member of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health for excellence in the areas of teaching, research and service.
The major criterion for the award is continuous demonstrated excellence over a number of years in service to the broad public health community. The award is intended for a mid-career faculty member as an incentive for continued excellence in these three areas. The award includes a cash prize of $14,000 annually for three years. For additional information and a list of past recipients, please visit the Greenberg Award page.
2022 Awards
Clare Barrington, PhD, and Dilshad Jaff, MD, MPH were honored with the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s most prestigious awards for alumni and faculty. Read more.
The Barr Award
Dr. Dilshad Jaff
Dilshad Jaff, MD, MPH, is the 2022 recipient of the Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award. He currently serves as Gillings Humanitarian Fellow and adjunct associate professor of maternal and child health. He earned a Master of Public Health degree from the Gillings School’s Department of Maternal and child Health in 2015.
The Greenberg Award
Dr. Clare Barrington
Clare Barrington, PhD, received the 2022 Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award. Barrington studies how health behaviors and outcomes are shaped by the social and structural context in which people live, with a focus on chronic conditions, including HIV and Type-2 diabetes. She received both MPH and doctoral degrees from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.