2026 Weintz Award Fellow
In conjunction with the 2026 Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award, awarded to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) invites nominations for the 2026 Weintz Award Fellow at Harvard.
The Weintz Award Fellow recognizes a Harvard-affiliated faculty member or postdoctoral fellow whose work reflects the values and impact of this year’s awardee. In alignment with MSF’s legacy and HHI’s mission, the Fellow will be awarded for demonstrating extraordinary leadership in advancing humanitarian medicine, strengthening emergency response, or delivering lifesaving care for populations affected by conflict, disaster, epidemics, and displacement.
The selected Fellow will receive a $5,000 grant as acknowledgment of their contribution to humanitarian medicine and will be invited to present their research and impact to the HHI community in Fall 2026. If awarded, funds will be dispensed upfront, not as reimbursement. If the awardee is based at Harvard University, the funds will be transferred internally to an account within your home department. If the awardee is employed at a Harvard Affiliated Teaching Hospital, funds will be transferred following the setup of an agreement between Harvard and that institution.
Nominations are open to anyone in the Harvard community and self-nominations are permitted. Nominations will be reviewed by the HHI team, with final selection made by HHI leadership.
Deadline: Please submit your nominations by Friday, June 5, 2026. Decisions will be announced in mid-July.
Eligibility:
- Current Harvard-affiliated faculty member or postdoctoral fellow
- Work aligned with humanitarian medicine, crisis response, and emergency preparedness
- Demonstrated impact and leadership consistent with the HHI mission and principles exemplified by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), this year’s HHI Weintz Awardee
- HHI team members are not eligible to be nominated