Fighting for #aHand2Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against indigenous children in Canada
Apr 17, 2024 — 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Join us for this seminar as part of the "Fighting for #aHand2Hold" training series with Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain, pediatric emergency physician and associate member of the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University.
Dr. Shaheen-Hussain, a champion of social justice and author of the award-winning book "Fighting for A Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada," will lead a discussion on the persistent issues of medical colonialism and systemic racism in healthcare, with a focus on the 2018 #aHand2Hold awareness campaign.
Attend the event in person at the Roger Guindon Pavilion (Room 2149).
Fighting for #aHand2Hold
Objectives:
- Critically think about and summarize how medical colonialism (including anti-Indigenous systematic racism) persists in healthcare provision today by using the 2018 #aHand2Hold advocacy campaign as a case-study.
- Review the historical context of genocidal medical violence against Indigenous children, including its implications on healthcare education, research, and clinical care today.
- Identify roles that students, educators, clinicians, and researchers can play to engage in decolonizing medical education, research and healthcare provision using a social-justice approach, and through the implementation of Joyce's Principle.
This event is part of a longitudinal advocacy training series organized in affiliation with the Canadian Federation of Medical Students & the Faculty of Medicine Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office.
Join us in our collective effort to confront and address these pressing issues in the field of healthcare!
For more information, contact [email protected].