The Canadian College of Health Leaders is pleased to announce that Sydney Campbell, PhD has been named the recipient of the 2024 Healthcare Management Forum Article of the Year Award for her article entitled “Re-examining medical assistance in dying for mature minors in Canada: Reflections for health leaders”.
Sydney Campbell recently completed her PhD at the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation at the University of Toronto, simultaneously completing a Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics through the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Her doctoral research is focused on generating conceptual, empirical, and normative evidence and recommendations related to Medical Assistance in Dying for mature minors in Canada. She is currently transitioning into a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie University.
As a whole, Sydney’s work aims to advance perspectives on the participation and engagement of young people, rethinking policy action and analysis with a child-inclusive lens, improving children’s well-being, the consideration of children’s rights, and improving the healthcare that children receive.
This award is focused on honouring a journal author whose article has helped to challenge the traditional notions of health leadership and motivate transformational behaviour.
Healthcare Management Forum covers current topics that are complex, personal, and often political for health leaders in Canada. This year’s award-winning article, by Sydney Campbell on medically assisted death for mature minors, exemplifies the importance of quality of life for all citizens and how this principle must be at the core of a continually learning healthcare system.
She and her co-authors provide Canadian health leaders with evidence from international experiences where medically-assisted death is permitted for some minors, and offer real-world suggestions that help leaders advocate for mature minors in matters that directly affect their lives, at both the policy and institutional planning level. This article is designed to transform the way health leaders think about Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for mature minors in their organizations and recognizes the significant link between policy and practice.
The HMF Article of the Year Award is sponsored by SAGE Publishing, a leading independent, academic and professional publisher of innovative, high-quality content.
This award is part of our CCHL National Awards Program and will be presented at the Honouring Health Leadership event on June 2, 2024.
Watch Sydney Campbell’s acceptance video from the Honouring Health Leadership Event this past June!
For further information and/or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Christian Coulombe
Vice-President, Marketing & Membership
Canadian College of Health Leaders
613-235-7219, ext. 213
ccoulombe@cchl-ccls.ca
