Suzanne Hindmarch

Dr. Suzanne Hindmarch (she/her) is a global politics scholar whose research spans global health, security studies, and critical theories of global politics. She has particular expertise in the politics of infectious disease.

Dr. Hindmarch’s research program, which has been funded through SSHRC and CIHR grants, investigates the origins, impacts and efficacy of the political and policy strategies through which global actors seek to address infectious disease at global, national and sub-national levels. One of her ongoing projects examines the conditions under which the health of equity-deserving groups including Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQIA+ and global South populations is (or is not) advanced in infectious disease response, especially in the contexts of global health security, and of One Health. She also studies the interface of global and domestic infectious disease governance, asking why global infectious disease response strategies are adopted, adapted or resisted domestically, and how state and non-state actors seek to advance their priorities via global health governance mechanisms.

She is the author of Securing Health: HIV and the limits of securitization, co-editor of Seeing Red: HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada, and has published widely on the global and domestic politics of AMR and of HIV/AIDS.

Dr. Hindmarch holds a PhD in political science (Toronto), an MA in international development studies (Dalhousie) and a BA in political science (Alberta). Prior to her academic career she worked in community-based AIDS organizations and in the Public Health Agency of Canada. She continues to provide expert guidance to federal and other bodies through several high-level advisory boards.

Dr. Hindmarch teaches courses in international relations, global health and global security. She is also a faculty member in the Gender and Women’s Studies interdisciplinary program.

Dr. Hindmarch welcomes graduate students with research interests in global health politics and/or critical security studies, especially projects addressing health (in)equity and gender and sexual minorities, racialized, Indigenous and global South populations. She can also supervise projects grounded in feminist, queer, postcolonial, constructivist, and other critical IR theories.