2025 Awardees

John Goldsmith Award

Andrea Baccarelli

Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, is the Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His work on the health impact of environmental exposures has been used by agencies worldwide to shape pollution control policies. Dr. Baccarelli previously served as chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, director of the NIH/NIEHS P30 Center for Environmental Health and Justice and president of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Baccarelli holds an MD from the University of Perugia in Italy, an MS in Epidemiology from the University of Turin, and a PhD from the University of Milan.

Tony McMichael Award

Tarik Benmarhnia

Professor Tarik Benmarhnia is Associate Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Department. Dr. Benmarhnia finished his PhD jointly from The University of Montreal and Paris Sud and finished two Master’s degrees, one in Environmental Health Sciences Engineering from the French School of Higher Education in Public Health and another in Pharmacy and Ecotoxicology from Montpellier University in France. He completed his BA in Environmental Sciences from Montpellier University. He has developed a rich and diverse educational profile that gave him the ability to explore cross-disciplinary fields of public health and other disciplines. To further his training, he was an environmental scientist on contaminated soil with the French Railway Company, followed by a Health Scientist position with the French National Institute of Health Education and Prevention, and most recently was a post-doc at McGill University with the Institute for Health and Social Policy.