Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain

Samir Shaheen-Hussain, MDCM, is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and an associate member of the School of Population and Global Health (both in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University) who works as a pediatric emergency physician. Dr. Shaheen-Hussain has been involved in anti-authoritarian social justice movements – including Indigenous solidarity, anti-police brutality and migrant-justice organizing – for over two decades. He is a member of the Caring for Social Justice Collective, is a regular contributor for the “Point de Vue” series at Le Devoir, and is the author of the award-winning book Fighting for A Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada.

Dr. Shaheen-Hussain is a racialized second-generation settler, born to parents who immigrated from South Asia, a region itself impacted by British colonialism. Tio’tia:ke (Montreal), the place he calls “home” is located on the unceded lands and waters of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation.