Joy Fitzgibbon

Joy Fitzgibbon is a political scientist whose research explores solutions to governance dilemmas in pandemic control and 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 previous research explored the Harvard NGO Partners in Health’s successful policy advocacy at the World Health Organization around multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. She also contributed to a collaborative research project on knowledge networks based out of universities. Her current research examines the contestation between human rights and security /intelligence interests in defining pandemic prevention and response. 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 21^st 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 and a Senior Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History.