Robert Huish
Associate Professor
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Email: huish@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2979
Twitter: @ProfessorHuish
Mailing Address:
Marion McCain Building
6135 University Ave.
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PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS, Canada
B3H 4R2
Office location:
Marion McCain Building 2197
- Sanctions
- International Relations
- Activism and Social Justice
- Global Health
- COVID-19 Stigma
Education
- B.A. (Hons.) Queen鈥檚 University鈥ㄢ
- M.A.听 Queen鈥檚 University鈥ㄢ
- Ph.D.听听 Simon Fraser University鈥
Dr. Huish is the host of the Podcast "GDP" which is the Podcast on all issues related to International Development. .
In response to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Huish offers a course on managing pandemics through cooperation and collaboration. .听
Research Interests
With support from the Nova Scotia COVID-19 Health Research Coalition, I am currently working on
Broadly, my research explores global health inequities, and the role of economic sanctions in shaping those inequities, as well as the role of social justice in resisting them. 听My current research looks at how donor nations are responding to the call for greater global health equity, and specifically how economic coercive measures (sanctions) impact the capacity of many countires in the global South to work with each other to improve health for all. 听
I also pursue research on how sanctions impact听human rights and security issues.听听In particular this work exposes how countries like Russia and North Korea continue to violate human rights, and how it pursues military aggression despite . Click here for my interviews on:听;听; and on听
Other areas of research include听听听and with special attention to Cuba, and how this facilitates comprehensive development.
At the moment I am currently working on the following projects:
- Human Rights Activism in North Korea.听鈥
- The impacts of climate change and health in pacific island countries)
- The Impacts of Sanctions on Health and Security.
Teaching Interests
(global health; activism & resistance; experiential learning)
My teaching interests include topics on global health, poverty and human rights, neoliberal globalization, and . 鈥 听听
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I'm also happy to introduce a new course on Pandemic management in the time of COVID-19.听 听combines podcast learning with game simulation to develop collaborative management strategies for students and policy makers.
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Books
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
Huish, Robert. (2021). 鈥淕lobal citizenship amid COVID-19: why climate change and a pandemic spell the end 听of international experiential learning鈥.听The Canadian Journal of Development Studies.听10.1080/02255189.2020.1862071
Huish, Robert (2020).听 鈥淐uba鈥 in Georgeou N., & Hawksley C. (eds).听State Responses to COVID-19: a global snapshot at 1 June 2020. Sydney: Western Sydney University Press.
Huish, Robert (2020).听 鈥淐anada鈥 in Georgeou N., & Hawksley C. (eds).听State Responses to COVID-19: a global snapshot at 1 June 2020. Sydney: Western Sydney University Press.
Huish, Robert (2018). Going where no one should go: Experiential Learning without making the world your classroom. Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education. 6(1) 2 - 21.
Huish, Robert. (2018).听 No Secret Cure: Why the 1970s Hold the Secret to Cuba鈥檚 Health Paradox in Kirk, Emily, Clayfield, Anna, & Story, Isabel (eds.) Cuba鈥檚 Forgotten Decade: How the听1970s Shaped the Revolution.听 New York: Lexington.
Huish, Robert, (2018), 鈥淧overty, Hunger and Inequality鈥, in听E-Learning Module on Operationalizing the Right to听Development in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals,听Kanade, M; Puvimanasinghe S; Aginam O; Schwartz P eds.听(Geneva, Ciudad Colon and Kuala Lumpur: UN, UPEACE and UNU-IIGH), Chapter 4.
Huish, Robert (2017). How to Sink the Hermit Kingdom:听 Improving Maritime Sanctions against North Korea.听 Canadian Naval Review. 13(2). 5- 10.
Huish, Robert. (2016). 鈥淲anting to Care: A Comparison of the ethics of health worker migration in Cuba and the Philippines,鈥 in Luginaah, Isaac, Bezner Kerr, Rachael (eds.)听Geographies of Development and Health. London: Ashgate.
Darnell, Simon & Robert Huish. (2015). Cuban Sport Policy and South 鈥 South Cooperation: An Exploration of the Escuela Internacional de Educaci贸n F铆sica y Deporte. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. 7(1), 123 鈥 140.
Darnell, Simon & Robert Huish (2015). 鈥淐uban Sport and the Challenges of South 鈥 South Solidarity,鈥 for Hayhurst, L. and Kay, T. (eds) Beyond Sport for Development: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice. London: Routledge.
Huish, Robert. (2014). Why Does Cuba 'Care' So Much? Understanding the Epistemology of Solidarity in Global Health Outreach. Public Health Ethics;鈥7(3), 261 鈥 276.
Huish, Robert, & Simon Darnell. (2014). 鈥淐uban Sport Development: Building Capacity from el Parque to the Podium,鈥澨 in Brenner, Philip, Marguerite Rose Jim茅nez, John M. Kirk, & William Leogrande, (eds). A Contemporary Cuban Reader 鈥 2nd Edition. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. 367 鈥 372.
Huish, Robert (2014). The Heart of the Matter: The Impacts of Cuban Medical Internationalism in the global South. Cuba in a Global Context: International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism. Cathie Krull (ed.) Gainsville: University Press of Florida. 176 鈥 191.
Huish, Robert (2013). 鈥淒issent 101: Teaching the 鈥榙angerous knowledge鈥 of practices of activism.鈥 Canadian Journal of International Development Studies. 34(2). 364- 383.
Huish, Robert, Thomas Carter & Simon Darnell, (2013). The (Soft) Power of Sport: The Comprehensive and Contradictory Strategies of Cuba鈥檚 Sport-Based Internationalism.听 International Journal of Cuban Studies. 5(1), 26 鈥 41.
Huish, Robert (2012). 鈥淭he Ethical Conundrum of International Health Electives in听Medical Education.鈥 Journal of Global Citizenship & Equity Education. 2(1).听 1-19.
Huish, Robert, Simon Darnell (2012). 鈥淪olidarity, counter-hegemony and听development: Exploring Cuba鈥檚 sport-based internationalism. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 36(71), 139 鈥 164.
Collins, Damian, S茅bastien Flueret, Robert Huish, Anne C茅cile Hoyez,听 (2011).听Regards crois茅s sur les geographies de la sant茅 Anglophone et Francophone, in Sant茅 de g茅ographie. Paris: Press Economica-Anthropos.
Huish, Robert (2011). Punching Above its Weight: Cuba鈥檚 use of sport for South-South Solidarity. Third World Quarterly 32(3). 417 鈥 433.
Evert, Jessica, Robert Huish Gary Heit, Scott Loeliger, Evaleen Jones, Steve听Schmidbauer (2011). Global Health Ethics. Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics. Judy Iles & Barbara Sahakian, (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Huish, Robert and W. George Lovell (2010). Bajo los volcanes: La Influenca de听Guatemala en Jos茅 Mart铆. 惭别蝉辞补尘茅谤颈肠补. 52. 87 鈥 110.
Spiegel, Jerry and Robert Huish (2009). Canadian Foreign Aid for Global Health:听Human Security Opportunity Lost. Canadian Foreign Policy. 15(3) 60 鈥 84.
Huish, Robert and John M. Kirk (2009). Cuban Medical Internationalism in Africa:听The Threat of a Dangerous Example. The Latin Americanist. 53(3) 125听 - 139.
Huish, Robert (2009). How Cuba鈥檚 Latin American School of Medicine challenges听the Ethics of Physician Migration. Social Science & Medicine. 69(3) 301 鈥 304.
Parkes Margot, Spiegel Jerry, Breilh Jaime, Cabarcas Fabio, Huish Robert, Yassi听Annalee. (2009). Promoting the health of marginalized populations in Ecuador through international collaboration and educational innovations Bulletin of the World Health Organisation.听 87(4), 312 鈥 319.
Huish, Robert. (2008). Human security and food security in geographic study:听Knowledge translation, concepts and elusive theory. 听Geography Compass. 2(5) 1386 鈥 1403.
Spiegel, Jerry, Robert Huish, Klaudia Dmitrienko, Andrea A. Cortinois (2008).听Canadian and Australian Health Aid, in Hanssonm Emily et. al. (eds.) Global Health Watch 2. London: Zed Books. 317 鈥 333.
Huish, Robert (2008).听 Going where no doctor has gone before: 听The role of听Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine in meeting the needs of some of the world's most vulnerable populations. Public Health. 122(6) 552- 557.听 (WHO International Joint Special Issue, 鈥淭owards a Scaling-up of education for health workers.鈥)
Huish, Robert & Jerry Spiegel. (2008). Integrating health and human security into听foreign policy: Cuba鈥檚 surprising success. International Journal of Cuban Studies. 1(1) 1 鈥 13.
Huish, Robert and John M. Kirk (2007). Cuban Medical Internationalism: the听development of the Latin American School of Medicine and human-resource-based healthcare provision. Latin American Perspectives. 34(6) 77 - 92.
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