Joy Fitzgibbon

Joy Fitzgibbon is an Associate Professor at Trinity College where she also serves as Associate Director of the Trinity One Program. She is a political scientist whose research explores solutions to governance dilemmas in pandemic control and in international security. As a scholar of international relations, she assesses the efficacy of policies shaped by global health networks, international institutions and national public health and security agencies. Her PhD research explored the Harvard NGO Partners in Health’s successful policy advocacy at the World Health Organization around multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. She is co-author of Networks of Knowledge and more recently articles including WHO, Surveillance and COVID-19 and a review of The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure, Why Warning Was Not Enough. She has three ongoing research projects. The first focuses on a critical assessment of global pandemic responses to COVID-19, TB and HIV-AIDs. The second considers security requirements in pandemic prevention and management, exploring the contestation between human rights and military/intelligence interests. The third analyzes military responses in policy and doctrine to sexual violence by combatants in conflict zones. She has lectured as faculty in the International Paediatric Emergency Medicine Elective at U of T, in the Canadian Disaster and Humanitarian Response Training Program and was a member of the Expert Working Group, Re-imagining Canadian National Security Strategy for the 21st Century—Working Group 7 After COVID: Global Pandemics and Biosecurity Strategy with the Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo. In addition to her faculty position at Trinity College, she is also a Fellow there, a Senior Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and a member of the Institute for Pandemics at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.