Dr. Katherine Fierlbeck
McCulloch Professor of Political Science, Dalhousie University
Canadian political thought, Canadian social union, Comparative health policy, Healthcare politics, Healthcare governance, Human rights (theory, institutions, politics), Network governance, New or experimental governance, Republican political thought
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Biography
Dr. Katherine Fierlbeck works in the areas of public policy and political theory. She teaches classes in the history of political thought, Canadian political thought, the philosophical development of human rights, neo-romanticism, and the politics of health care.
Fierlbeck is cross-appointed to the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, the Department of International Development Studies, and the European Studies Program. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Healthy Populations Institute, and is on the research committee for the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy. Fierlbeck is Director of the Jean Monnet Network for Health Law and Policy, an EU-funded network promoting research on health law and policy across Europe and North America.