The Campbell Collaboration has instituted a new annual award: the Farah Jamal Award for early researchers. The award aims to recognise scholarly research that ensures historically marginalised and under-represented voices are heard.
The award is named in honour and memory of Farah Jamal, an exceptional early career researcher who conducted innovative work on health inequalities. Her research was founded on the concept of a “sociological imagination” to understand complex social processes. In an article for the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, her colleagues wrote “Farah Jamal’s death at the age of 30 is a tragic loss for public health research. Despite her youth, she made significant scientific contributions in understanding how to improve young people’s health and well-being, and through developing new methods that will help other researchers in the future”.
Announcing the establishment of the Farah Jamal Award, CEO of Campbell Howard White said, “Campbell is pleased to introduce this award for early career researchers. We are inspired by Farah Jamal’s commitment to her work, which included contributing to evidence synthesis methods and challenging social inequalities. We hope that highlighting other early career researchers through this annual award will encourage a new global and diverse generation of scientists to follow her lead”.
The new award is now open for nominations (until 15 August 2021), and the recipient will be announced at the What Works Annual Summit 2021 in October.
Campbell is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We particularly welcome nominations of people who have been under-represented in past Campbell awards, for example, women and people from low- and middle-income countries.