Hiba Zafran
Assistant Professor (Professional)
Coordinator, OT Program Indigenous-focused curriculum thread
OCC 618: Applied OT: Psychosocial Theories (Coordinator)
A just and responsible academia must be both a bridge to,
and mirror for,
the kinds of societies we each and everyone have a right to.
Complete scholarship, organized by themes, available here.
Zafran, H., Hammell, K. W., Abumostafa, M., Turcotte, P.-L., & Jarus, T. (2026). Health-care professions’ silent complicity in Palestine's health crisis. The Lancet, 407(10525), 225. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)02263-9
Zafran, H., Beagan BL, Shephard D, Lauckner H, Whalley Hammell K, Lee Bunting K, Grenier ML, Turcotte PL, Abdo S, Jarus T. (2026). Finally; dialogue. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, January 8, 1-4. [Advance Online] https://doi.org/10.1177/00084174251408864
Zafran, H. (2025, Nov 1). (un)Burying Time(s). Center for Critical And Clinical Analysis. https://www.cccacommunity.com/unburying-times
Zafran, H., Beagan BL, Shephard D, Lauckner H, Whalley Hammell K, Lee Bunting K, Grenier ML, Turcotte PL, Abdo S, Jarus T. (2025). Shattering Silence, Inviting Dialogue: Anti-Oppressive Occupational Therapy During the Genocide of Palestinians: Briser le silence, inviter au dialogue : l'ergothérapie anti-oppressive pendant le génocide des Palestiniens. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, July 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/00084174251356348
Zafran, H. (2025). (Im)possibilities: The occupation of storytelling injustice. Journal of Occupational Science, 32(4), 630-646. [Special issue: Situated occupation and everyday life: Towards environmental, economic, social inclusiveness, and sustainability]
Zafran, H. (2024). “This is the World I Thought It Was.” Working with Emergent Adults Living at the Intersections of Queer and Racialized Identities During a Time of Anti-Trans Politics and Genocide. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 1–31.
Zafran, H., Valavaara, K., Phenix, A. (2024). Challenges Faced by Practitioners Accessing Jordan’s Principle: A Commentary. Health Reform Observer - Observatoire des Réformes de Santé, 11 (3): Article 3.
Razek, L., Zafran, H., Shankland, B. & Storr, C. (2022). From concern to commitment: Learning to center equity in occupational therapy admissions processes.McGill Journal of Global Health, XI.
Whalley-Hammell, K., Laliberte-Rudman, D., Zafran, H., Schmidt, J., Bunting, K.L., Bulk, L.Y., Grenier, M-L, Désormeaux-Moreau, M., Lee, M., Jarus, T. & Mortenson, W.B. (2022). Unbecoming change agents.Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy. [Editorial]
Zafran, H. & Hazlett, N. (2022). This house is not a home: Rebuilding an occupational therapy with and for us. Occupational Therapy Now.[Editorial for the special issue: Socially Accountable OT].
Zafran, H. (2021). Echopoetics and unbelonging: Making sense of reconciliation in academia. Transcultural Psychiatry [Special Issue: Cultural poetics of healing].
Byrne, H ., Cirillo, A ., Murphy- Gelderman, W., Petrucci, D., Gamondele, N . & Zafran, H. (2020). Stories of Paediatric Rehabilitation Practitioners with/in Indigenous Communities. A Guide to Becoming Culturally Safer. Occupational Therapy Program, McGill University, Montréal, QC.
Barudin, J. & Zafran. H. (2019). Introduction to trauma-informed rehabilitation with Indigenous communities. Physiotherapy Practice, 9(5), 18-21. [Special issue: Indigenous Health].
Zafran, H. (2019). Knowing from where I respond.Occupational Therapy Now, 21(4), 18-19 [Special Issue: Time for action: Occupational therapy responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission].
Zafran, H. Barudin, J., Saunders, S., & Kasperski, J. (2019). An Occupational Therapy Program Lays a Foundation for Indigenous Partnerships and Topics. Occupational Therapy Now, 21(4), 28-29 [Special Issue: Time for action: Occupational therapy responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission].
