Joy Fitzgibbon is an Associate Professor at °ÍÀè·èÂíÐã 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 and more recently articles including and a review of . 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, : with the Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo. In addition to her faculty position at °ÍÀè·èÂíÐã, she is also a Fellow there, a Senior Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and a member of the .