Hiba Zafran
Assistant Professor (Professional)
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.
Coordinator, OT Program Indigenous-focused curriculum thread
OCC 618: Applied OT: Psychosocial Theories (Co-coordinator)
OCC 622: Community-Based Occupational Therapy (Coordinator)
Please note that I am a part-time academic and do not take on graduate thesis supervision. I am open to being a member on the doctoral committees of historically excluded students whose projects are within my sphere of values and commitments.
Coordinator, Reconfiguring for Equity, Praxis, Accountability, Inclusion and Reconciliation, OT Program
Co-Chair - CAOT Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Practice Network
Equity & Accountability
Falcicchio, K., Schmitz, C, Zafran, H., Lysaught, R., & Jarus, T. (2022). JEDI in Fieldwork Supervision: The Next Frontier. Occupational Therapy Now, 25(5), 27-29.
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-Advance Online] DOI: 10.1177/00084174221089708
Zafran, H. & Hazlett, N. (2022). This house is not a home: Rebuilding an occupational therapy with and for us. Occupational Therapy Now, 25(2), 5-7. [Editorial for the special issue: Socially Accountable OT].
Anand,H., Baird, M., Boniface,G., Jafry, F., Leclair, L., Mahipaul, S., Omar, S., Pooley, E., Sabourin, H., Sangrar, R., & Zafran, H. (2022). Living social accountability as praxis: A working group’s narratives. Occupational Therapy Now, 25(2), 21-24. [Special issue: Socially Accountable OT].
Zafran, H. (2021). Lost in translation: The languages of a critical occupational therapy. Occupational Therapy Now, 23(6). 23-25. [Inaugural article, Topic Critical OT: Occupational Consciousness and Rights]
Anand, H., Mahipaul, S., Montour, E., Sangrar, R., & Zafran, H. (2021). What do we have to say about centering equity & justice in our professional lives? A Conversation that Matters. Occupational Therapy Now, 23(5). 11-13.
Indigenous Engagement
Bhanji, R., Chen, Y.L., Kerr, C., Mendez, I. &, Zafran, H. (2023). “Burying in Itself”: Challenges faced by practitioners accessing Jordan’s Principle across provinces and territories in Canada. Occupational Therapy Program, McGill University, Montréal, QC.
Zafran, H. (2021). Echopoetics and unbelonging: Making sense of reconciliation in academia. Transcultural Psychiatry 60(5),866-876. [Special Issue: Cultural poetics of illness and healing]. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615211015091
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. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28446.56641
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].
Zafran, H., Barudin, J., Saunders, S., & Kasperski, J. (2018). Responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action: Laying a Foundation for Indigenous Partnerships and Topics. Occupational Therapy Program, McGill University, Montréal, QC.
Teaching & Learning
Nguyen, A. X-L, Xiang, L., Chhibber, R., Blanchard, H., Tikhonova, S., Zafran, H., Miller, C-A., & Bergevin, Y. (2023). Student-Led Interprofessional Global Health Course: Learning Impacts During a Global Crisis. BMC Medical Education. 23:166 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04116-4
Zafran, H., Park, M., Rouleau, S., Lenchuca, R., Everitt, S & Clement, M-A. (2021). “Just 8 minutes”: The experience of occupational therapy educators designing and teaching virtual occupation-based groups for psychosocial issues. Occupational Therapy Now, 23(4), 28-30. [Special Issue: Virtual care and OT]
Grenier, M-L., Zafran, H., & Roy, L. (2020). The current landscape of teaching diversity in occupational therapy education: A scoping review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 74(6). https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2020.044214
Zafran, H. (2020). A narrative phenomenological approach to transformative learning: Lessons from occupational therapy reasoning in educational practice. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 74(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2020.033100
Mental Health & Psychiatry
Zafran, H. (2020). Occupational gifts in the time of a pandemic. Occupational Therapy Now, 22(4), 5-6.
Ash-Maheux, R., Bartczak, M., Monteferrante, J., Nurse, A., Persad, S., Zafran, H., & Lambert, H. (2018). Spotting PTSD: A PTSD Toolkit for First Responders. [Publicly available upon request]
Zafran, H., Tallant, B., Gelinas, I., & Jordan, S. (2018). The phenomenology of early psychosis elicited in an occupational therapy expressive evaluation. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 34(1), 3-31.
Zafran, H., Mazer, B., Tallant, B., Chilingaryan, G., & Gelinas, I. (2017). Detecting incipient schizophrenia: A validation of the Azima Battery in first episode psychosis. Psychiatric Quarterly, 88(3), 585-602. [open access link]
Solomon, G. & Zafran, H. (2016). An occupational therapy student’s reflections on recovery as seeing, and being seen. Occupational Therapy Now, 18(5), 13-14 [Special issue: Recovery-oriented psychosocial rehabilitation practice].
Zafran, H. (2016).A mixed methods inquiry into the clinical utility of an expressive projective assessment with individuals experiencing early psychosis. (Doctoral Thesis). McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Zafran, H. (2015). Health care professional’s opinions on culture and rehabilitation services for youth experiencing early psychosis. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 19(2), 75-82.
Park, M.M., Lencucha, R., Mattingly, C., Zafran, H. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2015). A qualitative study on the ethics of transforming care: examining the development and implementation of Canada's first mental health strategy. Implementation Science, 10, 121-130.
Zafran, H. & Tallant, B. (2015). “It would be a shame to lose them”: A critical historical, scoping and expert review of the use of projective assessments in occupational therapy. Part II. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 31(4), 328-365.
Zafran, H. & Tallant, B. (2015). “It would be a shame to lose them”: A critical historical, scoping and expert review of the use of projective assessments in occupational therapy. Part I. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 31(3), 187-210.
Park, M.M., Zafran, H., Stewart, J., Salsberg, J., Ells, C., Rouleau, S., Estein, O., & Valente, T.W. (2014). Transforming mental health services: A participatory mixed methods study to promote and evaluate the implementation of recovery-oriented care. Implementation Science, 9, 119-130.
Zafran, H., Tallant, B., & Gelinas, I. (2012). The experience of academic reintegration after a first episode of psychosis - A first-person exploration. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 16(1), 27-43.
Research Methodology
Zafran, H. (2020). Hermeneutic mixed methods research: Inquiry into arts-based assessments in early psychosis. Sage Research Methods Cases - Medicine & Health.
Park, M. & Zafran, H. (2018). View from the Penthouse: Epistemological bumps and emergent metaphors as method for team reflexivity. Qualitative Health Research, 28(3), 408-417 [Special Issue: Methods].
Open Access Presentations
Zafran, H. (2022). Towards Justice: Equity and Accountability in Rehabilitation. Intersections in Rehabilitation. University of Alberta, Virtual Speaker Series. [Open access content and learning resources].
Zafran, H. (2021) Redressing the null curriculum in occupational therapy education Canadian Association Occupational Therapists Virtual Conference, May 2021.
Zafran, H. (2021). A Conversation About Viral Misinformation & Medical Mistrust [Panel]. SciComm Collective
Zafran, H. (2021). Moving beyond occupational narratives of hope, equity and justice [Panel].
Grenier, M-L & Zafran, H. (2020). Questioning white supremacy in occupational therapy practice and education. [Workshop] CAOT Virtual 2020 Conference.
Razack, S., Grenier, M-L., Zafran, H., & Legare-Tremblay, E. (2020). Honouring my Identity: Navigating Healthcare Training as a 2sLGBTQIA+ Learner. WELL Office, McGill University
