Colleen O'Manique, B.A. (Carleton) M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Department Chair & Associate Professor

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x7966

Email: comanique@trentu.ca

Office: LEC S109

Colleen O’Manique is a feminist political economist, with an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from York University. She has been teaching at Trent since 2001, after working for a number of years as an international development consultant both in Canada and overseas. Today, her research focuses on the global political economy of health, in particular on the intersections between specific features of globalization, human health, and gender relations. Her first book, Neoliberalism and HIV/AIDS Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Globalization’s Pandemic, analyzed the evolution of the institutional response to the emerging pandemic in the context of the sub-continent’s economic and political restructuring. She is currently working on three projects: the first, an examination of Canada’s role in global health governance; the second, an analysis of the rise of celebrity and private philanthropy in the global health sector; and the third, a feminist political economy analysis of contemporary bioethics and public health ethics. With ten other scholars, she is a member of the research network Health in an Unequal World: Global Ethics and Policy Choices funded through the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

At Trent Dr. O’Manique is cross-appointed to Politics and is an affiliate of International Development Studies, the Graduate Program in Canadian and Native Studies, and the Centre for Health Research. She also coordinates the International Political Economy Joint Major. For the Women’s Studies Program, she has taught Introduction to Women’s Studies, Feminist Research, The Politics of Gender and Globalization, and Sex, Gender and Science.

Recent Publications:

- "Time to Deliver What? Reflections on AIDS Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa after the 16th Annual International AIDS Conference." Presented at the first meeting of the research network Health in an Unequal World: Global Ethics and Policy Choices Pretoria, South Africa, December 2007

- "Global Health and Universal Human Rights: A Case for G8 Accountability in Governing Global Health: Challenge, Response, Innovation." Andrew Cooper, Ted Schrecker and David Kirton (eds.) Ashgate: 2007 (in print)

- "The Securitization of AIDS: A Critical Feminist Lens" in eds. Timothy Shaw, Sandra McLean, and David Black, A Decade of Human Security: Global Governance and the New Multilateralisms. Ashgate, 2006.

- "Neoliberalism and AIDS Crisis in Sub-Sahara Africa: Globalization’s Pandemic." (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan 2004).

- "Engendering Health and Globalization: International Responses to Sub-Saharan Africa’s AIDS Pandemic," Studies in Political Economy, Vol. 73, Spring/Summer 2004.