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

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x7966
Email: comanique@trentu.ca
Office: LEC S111;  Office Hours:  Thursday 1:00-3:00 pm

Colleen O’Manique has been on faculty at Trent since 2001. Her research focuses on the global political economy of health; in particular, the intersections between specific features of global economic restructuring, health policy, and gender. She has published on the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, global health and human security, and health and human rights.  She is currently researching celebrity philanthropy and HIV/AIDS programs in Africa (with Momin Rahman), and working on a book (with Peter P. Fourie) on the history of global health governance.

She has taught a variety of courses for Women’s Studies including Introduction to Women’s Studies, Feminist Research, The Politics of Gender and Globalization, and Sex, Gender and Science. Dr. O’Manique is cross- appointed to the Politics department, and is affiliated with International Development Studies and the Graduate Program in Canadian and Indigenous Studies.

Teaching  2009-10:

WMST-POST 3880 The Politics of Gender and Globalization

Recent Publications:

O’Manique C & Fourie, P (2009) ‘The Securitization of Health in the 21st Century’ in Dunn Cavelty, M & Mauer, V (eds.) Handbook of Security Studies. Oxford: Routledge.

O’Manique, C (2009) ‘Globalization and Gendered Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa,’ in The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture and HIV/AIDS in the 21st Century SSRC/UNESCO/UNFPA  http://blogs.ssrc.org/fourthwave/2008/12/31/omanique/

O’Manique, C (2009) ‘Palliative Interventions: Canadian Foreign Policy, Security, and Global Health Governance, in Maclean, S, Brown, S & Fourie, P (eds) Health for Some: The political economy of global health governance. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

O’Manique, C and R. Labonte, (2008) ‘Rethinking (Product) RED, The Lancet vol. 371 May 10

O’Manique C and R. Labonte (2008) ‘Author’s Reply: Rethinking (Product) RED’, The Lancet vol. 371 May 31

O’Manique, C (2006) ‘The Securitization of AIDS: A Critical Feminist Lens’ in eds. Tim Shaw and Sandra McLean (eds), Mapping Innovations in Human Security Ashgate, 2006.

O’Manique, C (2006) ‘Global Health and Universal Human Rights: The Case for G8 Responsibility’ in The G8 and Global Health: Challenge, Response, Innovation Ronald Labonte, Ted Schrecker and David Kirton (eds.)  Ashgate 2006.

O’Manique, C (2005) ‘The Securitization’ of AIDS: A Critical Feminist Lens’ Policy and Society 24 (1) 2005.

O’Manique, C (2004) ‘Global Neo-liberalism and AIDS Policy: International Responses to Africa’s Pandemic.’ Studies in Political Economy, Spring/Summer 2004

O’Manique, C (2004) Neoliberalism and AIDS Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Globalization’s Pandemic.  Basingstoke: Palgrave-MacMillan.