The Carl Henry Nacht Fellowship

Fellowship Overview

The Dr. Carl Henry Nacht Health Fellowship was founded by Mary Beth Kelly in honor of her husband Dr. Carl Henry Nacht. Henry used New York City's public spaces to stay healthy: walking its neighborhoods, running its streets and bicycling to his office, the hospital and to homebound patients. The Fellowship honors Henry's dedication to improving people's lives by promoting the city as a place for New Yorkers to engage in healthy activity. It strengthens Transportation Alternatives' mission to reclaim street space by demonstrating the public health outcomes achievable when streets prioritize biking, walking and transit.

The design, management and enforcement of city streets determine, to a large degree, the health and well-being of its citizenry. New York City's 6,000 miles of streets and 12,000 miles of sidewalks are 80 percent of the city's public space. How we use that space has everything to do with how active, healthy and happy we are every day.

Transportation Alternatives seeks urban minded scholars with adventurous spirits to work with us for a four to five month period on a project to help people rethink their relationship with the built environment, challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of New York City streets to produce healthier, happier citizens. The Fellowship aims to support current or future leaders in public health or medicine, environmentalism, transportation, urban policy, geography or planning to work with us to advance transportation and health initiatives.

Fellows receive a generous stipend.