Samir Shaheen-Hussain

Dr. Shaheen-Hussain is a racialized second-generation settler who works as a pediatric emergency physician in Tio’tia:ke (Montréal), located on the unceded lands and waters of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. He is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and an associate member of the School of Population and Global Health. He has been involved in anti-authoritarian social justice movements for over two decades, and is currently an active member of the Caring for Social Justice Collective. Samir is a regular contributor to 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 (foreword by Cindy Blackstock; afterword by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel), which was also translated to French as Plus aucun enfant autochtone arraché: Pour en finir avec le colonialisme médical canadien (Lux Éditeur, 2021). He is currently enrolled in the M.A. program in the Department of History within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Université de Montréal.

Fighting for a Hand to Hold website

Point de Vue guest columns in Le Devoir

Publications