The winners of the five annual Campbell awards were celebrated this week. At the Campbell Members Meeting on 17 October, Jeremy Grimshaw, President of the Campbell Board, made the presentations for the Farah Jamal Award, the Frederick Mosteller Award, the Robert Boruch Award and Leonard E. Gibbs Award.
The Leonard E. Gibbs Award is given to the authors of a Campbell systematic review that contributes to evidence-informed practice in social welfare. This year’s recipient is the author team of “Multisystemic Therapy® for social, emotional, and behavioural problems in youth age 10 to 17: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis”, led by Julia Littell. Click here to read more about this systematic review update.
The Frederick Mosteller Award for distinctive contributions to systematic reviewing was given to Jo McKenzie for her role in developing rigorous and transparent methods for synthesis without meta-analysis, including a new chapter in the Cochrane Handbook on synthesis using other methods when meta-analysis of effect estimates may not be possible.
The Farah Jamal Award for early career researchers aims to recognise scholarly research that ensures historically marginalised and under-represented voices are heard. This year’s recipient, Zack Marshall, was recognised for his leadership by developing an evidence and gap map on all research including transgender, non-binary and gender-diverse people.
The Robert Boruch Award for distinctive contributions to research that informs public policy went to Patrick Okwen, Team Lead at eBASE Africa, in honour of his contributions to promoting the use of evidence to inform policy and practice.
The John Westbrook Award was announced by Kathleen Murphy, Co-chair of the Knowledge Translation & Implementation Coordinating Group in the closing session of the What Works Global Summit 2022. The recipient is Melanie Barwick, Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. The award recognises her significant contribution to using knowledge translation and implementation science to make research syntheses more relevant and useful for policy and practice.
Click here to read more about the Campbell awards and previous winners.