Dr. Fierlbeck is a Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute and serves as the Institute’s Health Policy Scholar for 2025.
She is cross-appointed to the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, the Department of International Development Studies, and the European Studies Program at Dalhousie University. 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 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.