DGPH Seminar: Confronting Medical Colonialism: from #aHand2Hold to Joyce鈥檚 Principle
Join us for an important seminar of the Department of Global and Public Health with Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain who will deliver a talk titled "Confronting Medical Colonialism: from #aHand2Hold to Joyce鈥檚 Principle". The talk will be followed by a Q&A period.
- WHEN: Monday, April 8, 2024, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
- WHERE: Hybrid | 2001 Avenue 平特五不中 College, Room 114
- Zoom link:聽
Speaker Bio
Samir Shaheen-Hussain 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 平特五不中) who works as a pediatric emergency physician. He is a member of the Caring for Social Justice Collective, is a regular contributor for the , and is the author of the award-winning book (foreword by Cindy Blackstock; afterword by Katsi鈥檛sakwas Ellen Gabriel).
Samir is a racialized second-generation settler, born to parents who immigrated from South Asia, a region itself impacted by British colonialism. Tio鈥檛ia:ke (Montreal), the place he calls 鈥渉ome鈥� is located on the unceded lands and waters of the Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka Nation.