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Katherine Fierlbeck

Professor / McCulloch Professor of Political Science - on sabbatical

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Email: K.Fierlbeck@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-6629
Mailing Address: 
Department of Political Science, Rm 344, Henry Hicks Bldg 黄色直播, 6283 Alumni Crescent, PO Box 15000 Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Health care politics
  • Health care governance
  • Comparative health policy
  • Canadian political thought
  • Theories of governance and policy formation
  • Normative and historical political theory
  • Epistemological political theory

Education:

  • University of Alberta (B.A. Hon.)
  • York University (M.A.)
  • Cambridge University (Ph.D.)
  • University of Alberta (PDF)

Selected Publications:

Books:

Public Policy Challenges in Rethinking Public Health: Comparative Perspectives. World Scientific Publishing, 2024

The Boundaries of Medicare: Public Health Care Beyond the Canada Health Act听(with Gregory Marchildon).McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2023.

Fierlbeck, K., and Joaquin Cayon de las Cuevas, eds. Health Law and Policy from East to West: Analytical Perspectives and Comparative Case Studies. Thomson Reuters/Editorial Aranzadi SAU, 2022

ed. with M. Herder and J. Graham), University of Toronto Press, 2021

(University of Toronto Press, 2018)

, with H.Palley (Ashgate Press, 2015)

, with W. Lahey (McGill-Queens University Press 2013)

听(University of Toronto Press 2011)

听 (Manchester University Press听1998, 2nd edition 2008)

(University of Toronto Press/Broadview, 2006)

(University of Toronto Press/Broadview 2005)

Edited special Issues: 听

Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (February 2021).

Articles:听

"The Scope and Nature of Private Health Care in Canada". C.D, Howe Institute (January 2024)

"Strategies and indicators to integrate health equity in health service and delivery systems in high income countries: A scoping review". JBI Evidence Synthesis.听Caldwell, H.A.T.,Yusuf, J., Carrea, C., Conrad, P., Embrett, M., Fierlbeck, K.,听Hajizadeh, M., Kirk, S.F.L., Rothfus, M., Sampalli, T., Sim, S.M., Tomblin Murphy, G., Williams, L, 2024

鈥淗ealthcare in federal systems.鈥 Politics and Governance. Vol. 11, No. 3 (2023), 289-299.

鈥淚nstitutional Ethnography as Critical Policy Analysis: Innovations for guiding policy research.鈥澨Critical Studies.听Elizabeth McGibbon, Katherine Fierlbeck, and Tari Ajadi. Forthcoming Fall 2022. 听

鈥淗ealth inequity and institutional ethnography: mapping the problem of policy change."听Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse. Elizabeth McGibbon, Katherine Fierlbeck, and Tari Ajadi. Vol.2, No. 3 (2021).听

鈥淲hat strategies and indicators are health service and delivery systems using to address health equity? A scoping review protocol.鈥澨JBI Evidence Synthesis.听Meaghan Sim, Hilary Caldwell, Sara Brushett. Emma Cameron, Mohammed Hajizadeh, Sara Kirk, Katherine Fierlbeck, Tara Sampalli, Mark Embrett, Melissa Rothfus. (2021) Aug. DOI: 10.11124/jbies-21-00001. PMID: 34374690.

鈥淔are well to Nova Scotia? Public health investments remain chronically underfunded鈥 Hilary A. T. Caldwell, Sara Scruton, Katherine Fierlbeck, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Shivani Dave, Meaghan Sim, Sara F. L. Kirk. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112,听pages186鈥190 (2021) https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00478-8.

鈥淗ealth care and the fate of Social Europe.鈥澨Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law听(February 2021).

鈥淎n expert-generated tool for assessing policy capacity鈥,听Canadian Public Administration听Logan Lawrence, Katherine Fierlbeck, Patrick McGrath, Janet Curran. June 2020.

鈥淎malgamating provincial health authorities: assessing the experience of Nova Scotia,鈥 Health Reform Observer 7/3, September 2019, Article 3. DOI:

鈥淩eadiness to collaborate scale: how ready are obstetrical practitioners to participate in an interprofessional healthcare team?鈥 Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice 13. Jennifer Murdoch, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Robert Alder, John Gilbert, Katherine Fierlbeck, Audrey Steenbeek. December 2018, 73-80.

鈥淚s New Public Governance Useful in Thinking 黄色直播 Health Care? Health Technology Assessment in Canada.鈥 Katherine Fierlbeck, Bill Gardner and Adrian Levy, Canadian Public Administration, March 2018.

鈥淩eforming the regulation of therapeutic products in Canada: The Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act (Vanessa鈥檚 Law).鈥 Health Reform Observer 4/4 (November 2016). Condensed version of this article (edited by Alex Titeu) also published in the Health Systems and Policy Monitor, October 2017

鈥淭he Politics of Regionalization,鈥 HealthcarePapers 16/1 (2016), 58-62.

鈥淟egislating Collaborative Self-Regulation in Canada: A Comparative Policy Analysis.鈥 William Lahey and Katherine Fierlbeck, Journal of Interprofessional Care 30/2. March 2016, 211-216.

鈥淏reaking the Deadlock: Towards a New Intergovernmental Relationship in Canadian Healthcare鈥 (with William Gardner and Adrian Levy). HealthcarePapers 14/3 (Oct 2014), 7-15.

The Changing Contours of Experimental Governance in European Health Care,鈥 Social Science and Medicine (v. 108, May 2014), 89-96.

鈥淧ublic Health and Collaborative Governance,鈥 Canadian Public Administration (March 2010).

鈥淐anadian Democracy,鈥 essay for Library and Archives Canada鈥檚 鈥淔orum on Canadian Democracy 鈥減roject. Published online by LAC 2008 at

鈥淲hatever Happened to Regionalization? The Curious Case of Nova Scotia,鈥 (with Martha Black), Canadian Public Administration v.49, n.4 (Winter 2006), 506-526.

鈥淧olitical Imperatives and Normative Justifications: Response to Joyce Green,鈥 in The Canadian Journal of Political Science, June 2000.

鈥淧olicy and Ideology: The Politics of Post-Reform Health Policy in the United Kingdom,鈥 in the International Journal of Health Services, v. 26, n. 3 (1996).

鈥淭he Ambivalent Potential of Cultural Identity,鈥 in The Canadian Journal of Political Science, March 1996.

鈥淕etting Representation Right for Women in Development,鈥 in The IDS Bulletin, July 1995 (also published as a book chapter, as noted below).

鈥淢arketing Care: The Politicization of Health Care in Britain,鈥 in Studies in Political Economy, Fall 1994.

鈥淓conomic Liberalization as a Prologue to Democracy,鈥 in The Canadian Journal of Development Studies, July 1994.

鈥淩edefining Responsibility: The Politics of Citizenship in the UK,鈥 in The Canadian Journal of Political Science, September 1991.

Book chapters:听

鈥淧olicy, politics, and pandemics,鈥 in听Public Health Political Science: Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health,听(with Kevin McNamara and MaureenMacDonald). Patrick Fafard, Evelyne de Leeuw, and Adele Cassola, eds. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022.听

鈥淗ave the Post-SARS Reforms prepared us for COVID-19? Mapping the Institutional Landscape鈥 (with Lorian Hardcastle).听Vulnerable:The Policy, Law, and Ethics of COVID-19.听Colleen Flood, Vanessa MacDonnell, Jane Philpott, and Sophie Theriault Sridhar Venkatapurum, eds.听(Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2020).听听

鈥淗ealth Care in the Provinces,鈥 in Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics, 3rd ed. Christopher Dunn, ed. University of Toronto Press, 2015; 442-470.

鈥淐anada,鈥, in Comparative Health Care Federalism. Ashgate, 2015.

鈥淢on Pays, C鈥檈st l鈥橝ssurance-Maladie,鈥 in Policy Thinking Outside the Box: Innovation in Policy Ideas. K. Banting, R. Chaykowski and S. Lehrer, editors.听School of Policy Studies, in association with McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2015; 67-90.

鈥淭hree Approaches to Cost Containment in Health Care Federalism,鈥 in Greg Marchildon and Livio de Matteo, eds. Bending the Cost Curve. University of Toronto Press, 2014; 169-191.

鈥淭he Political Dynamics of Health Care Federalism,鈥 in Fierlbeck and Lahey, eds. Health Care Federalism in Canada: Critical Junctures and Critical Perspectives. McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press. 2013; 45-70

鈥淩enewing Federalism, Improving Health Care: Can This Marriage Be Saved?鈥 in Fierlbeck and Lahey, eds. Health Care Federalism in Canada: Critical Junctures and Critical Perspectives. McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press. 2013; 3-23.

鈥淭he Dialectics of Law and Politics: Federal Health Policy in Canada and the EU,鈥 in Finn Laursen, ed. The European Union and Federalism: Polities and Policies Compared (Ashgate Press, 2010).听

鈥淩omancing the State鈥, in Bruce Morrison, ed. Transnational Democracy: Lessons from the Nation State. Ashgate Press, 2003.听听听听

鈥淧aying to Play: Government Financing and Health Care Agenda Setting,鈥 in Gregory Marchildon, Tom McIntosh, and PG Forest, eds. The Fiscal Sustainability of Health Care. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

鈥淐ost Containment in Health Care: The Federalism Context,鈥 in Duane Adams, ed. The Canadian Social Union: Case Studies from the Health Sector, McGIll-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2001.

鈥淭he Right to Health Care,鈥 in Don Carmichael, Tom Pocklington, and Greg Pyrcz, eds. Democracy, Rights, and Well-Being in Canada. Harcourt-Brace Canada, 1999.

鈥淢ulticulturalism and the Right to Recognition,鈥 in Don Carmichael, Tom Pocklington, and Greg Pyrcz, eds. Democracy, Rights, and Well-Being in Canada. Harcourt-Brace, 1999.

鈥淕etting Representation Right for Women in Development,鈥 in A.M. Goetz, ed. Breaking In, Speaking Out: Making Development Organizations Work for Women in Development. London: Zed Books, 1998.

鈥淐anadian Health Care Reform and the Politics of Decentralization,鈥 in Christa Altenstetter and James Bjorkman, ed. Health Reform, National Variations, and Globalization.听 London: Macmillan (NY: St Martin鈥檚 Press), 1997.听听听听听听听听听听

Service and Activity:

Dr. Fierlbeck is cross-appointed to the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology,听the Department of International Development Studies, and听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. Dr. 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. Her current CIHR-funded research includes a project investigating听upstream determinants of effective COVID-19 response: learning from comparisons across Canada's provinces and another looking at the impact of retirement income programs on health and health equity among Canadian seniors.