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Samir Shaheen-Hussain is a racialized second-generation settler and a pediatric emergency physician based in Tio’tia:ke (Montréal), which is located on the unceded lands and waters of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. He is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and also serves as an associate member of the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University. With decades of involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements, Samir is currently an active member of the Caring Social Justice Collective. He regularly contributes to the 'Point de Vue' series for Le Devoir, and is the author of the award-winning book 'Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Indigenous Children Canada.' He is currently enrolled in the MSc program in the Department of History within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Université de Montréal. His research areas include medical colonialism and migrant health justice, focusing specifically on the implications of systemic racism within healthcare.
Department: Department of Medicine. Program: Experimental Medicine.