The JCPA Adjudication Committee, Chaired by Michael Howlett, Simon Fraser University - Vancouver, Canada, Jon Pierre, University of Gothenberg, Sweden, and Tiina Randma Liiv, Talliinn University, Estonia (members) have unanimously selected:
“A Comparative Analysis of Paid Leave for the Health Needs of Workers and their Families Around the World”
JCPA, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 241-257
by
Alison Earle & Jody Heymann
McGill University, Canada
Harvard University, US
The Award of $1,000 was possible thanks to the JCPA & ICPA-Forum invitational International Institutional Sponsorship Program. We extend our gratitude to the sponsoring institutions for their assistance in promoting comparative policy studies. The Award was presented at the 29th Annual APPAM Fall Research Conference in Washington, D.C.
Alison Earle, PhD received her doctorate in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 1999, Dr. Earle received a post-doctoral fellowship to study the impact of paid leave policies on family health from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. She had served as an Instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health from 2000 to 2005. In July of 2005, Dr. Earle was appointed as a Research Scientist in which capacity she served initially as the Research Program Manager, and now as Co-Director of the Project on Global Working Families; as Principal and Co-Principal Investigator on projects investigating workplace conditions and their impact on communities and family well-being, and leds a research team in developing a global labor policy index.
Her research has focused on the working conditions Americans face, with a particular focus on paid sick days. Earle co-authored some of the earliest research on paid sick days in the United States, and most recently, the first studies to look at economic competitiveness and paid sick days policies. Her articles have been published in The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, The Journal of the American Public Health Association, Pediatrics, Community Work and Family, among others.
Jody Heymann, PhD holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Social Policy and is a Professor in the Faculties of Medicine and Arts at McGill University and Adjunct Professor at Harvard University. She is Founding Director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University and the Project on Global Working Families at Harvard University. She has served in an advisory capacity for the U.S. Senate, the World Health Organization, UNESCO, and the International Labor Organization, among other international bodies.
Dr. Heymann has more than a hundred publications, including, among others, Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, 2006), Healthier Societies: From Analysis to Action (Oxford University Press, 2006), Unfinished Work (New Press, 2005), and The Widening Gap (Basic Books, 2001). Heymann’s work has been featured on CNN Headline News, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio, in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, as well as scholarly publications around the world.
