The Jack Boan Student Essay Competition sponsored by The Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation
The details for the 2025 Jack Boan Student Essay Competition can be downloaded here.
Les détails pour le concours de dissertation 2025 peuvent être téléchargés ici.
In 2008, the Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation launched its annual student essay competition. Its intent is to foster and celebrate Canadian health economics, health services and health policy research among undergraduate and graduate students.
Yearly submissions must address at least one of the five criteria for a national health service advocated by Justice Hall in the 1964 Royal Commission on Health Services Report that later formed the principles for the Canada Health Act: Public Administration, Comprehensiveness, Universality, Portability and Accessibility.
Three prizes are awarded annually for the best essay at the undergraduate, master, and PhD level.
In 2015 the annual Justice Emmett Hall student essay competition was renamed to celebrate Dr. John (Jack) Boan's significant contributions to the filed of health economics and policy.
Essay Winners
2024
Undergraduate: Maddy Hayes
Master’s: Akino Milligan
Doctoral: Madeleine D. Sheppard-Perkins
2023
Undergraduate Award: Rebecca Chau
Master’s Award: Camila Goldstein-Fridman
Doctoral Award: Nisha Ravichandiran
2022
Undergraduate Award: Jillian Ottmann
Master’s Award: Majd Radhaa
Doctoral Award: Evgenia Gatov
2021
Undergraduate Award: Not awarded
Master’s Award: Winnie Ma
Doctoral Award: Daniel Tingskou
2020
Undergraduate Award: Jacob Yuriy
Master’s Award: Kelly Thai
Doctoral Award: Kate McLeod
2019
Undergraduate Award: Tina Madani Kia
Master’s Award: Nishani Baskararajah
Doctoral Award: Crystal Milligan
2018
Undergraduate Award: Kandice Power
Master’s Award: Amina Moustaqim-Barrette
Doctoral Award: Not awarded
2017
Undergraduate Award: Elaine Xiaoyu Guo
Master’s Award: Krupa Kotecha, Priya Kotecha
Doctoral Award: Anita Minh
2016
Undergraduate Award: Yan Xu
Masters Award: Harriet Ho
Doctoral Award: Helen Cerigo
2015
Undergraduate Award: Andrea Crowe
Masters Award: K. Suzanne Maginley
Doctoral Award: Colleen A. Hanrahan
2014
Undergraduate Award: Emmalin Buajitti
Masters Award: Jonathan Harris
Doctoral Award: Renee Carter
2013
Undergraduate Award: Evren DeSousa
Masters Award: Angie Natingor
Doctoral Award: Renee Carter
2012
Undergraduate Award: Dylan Meuser
Masters Award: Clare Reade
Doctoral Award: Anna Durbin
2011
Undergraduate Award: Moreno Zanotto
Masters Award: Rebecca Mador
Doctoral Award: Anna Durbin
2010
Undergraduate Award: Farwa Malik
Masters Award: Christine Soon
Doctoral Award: Nour Schoueri
2009
Undergraduate Award: Robyn Fallen
Masters Award: Susann Camus
2008
Undergraduate Award: Timothy Roche
Masters Award: Immaculate Nevis
Doctoral Award: Michael Law
Jack Boan celebrating his 97th birthday in December 2014 in Regina, Saskatchewan.