Hiba Zafran

Title: 
PhD., Occupational Therapist - Psychotherapist (she/her/elle)
Academic title(s): 

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.


Hiba Zafran
Contact Information
Address: 

By appointment

Phone: 
514 396 2710
Email address: 
hiba.zafran [at] mcgill.ca
Teaching areas: 
Current research: 

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 thedoctoral committees ofhistorically excluded students whose projects are within my sphere of values and commitments.

Professional activities: 
Selected publications: 

Equity & Accountability

Zafran, H. (Accepted-minor revisions). The occupation of story-telling injustice.Journal of Occupational Science.

Falcicchio, K., Schmitz, C, Zafran, H., Lysaught, R., & Jarus, T. (2022). JEDI in Fieldwork Supervision: The Next Frontier. 27-29.

Razek, L., Zafran, H., Shankland, B. & Storr, C. (2022). . 鶹 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). 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: ].

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: ].

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

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.

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, 鶹, 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].

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, 鶹, Montréal, QC. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28446.56641

Barudin, J. & Zafran. H. (2019). Introduction to trauma-informed rehabilitation with Indigenous communities. 18-21. [Special issue: Indigenous Health].

Zafran, H. (2019). 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). . 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). Occupational Therapy Program, 鶹, 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

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. []

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).

Zafran, H. (2020). American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 74(1), 1-6.

Mental Health & Psychiatry

Zafran, H. (Under review). "This is the world I thought it was". Working with QTBIPOC emergent adults during a time of anti-trans politics and genocide.Occupational Therapy in Mental Health.

Zafran, H. (2020). . Occupational Therapy Now, 22(4), 5-6.

Ash-Maheux, R., Bartczak, M., Monteferrante, J., Nurse, A., Persad, S., Zafran, H., & Lambert, H. (2018). [Publicly available upon request]

Zafran, H., Tallant, B., Gelinas, I., & Jordan, S. (2018). Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 34(1), 3-31.

Zafran, H., Mazer, B., Tallant, B., Chilingaryan, G., & Gelinas, I. (2017). . Psychiatric Quarterly, 88(3), 585-602. []

Solomon, G. & Zafran, H. (2016). Occupational Therapy Now, 18(5), 13-14 [Special issue: Recovery-oriented psychosocial rehabilitation practice].

Zafran, H. (2016).. (Doctoral Thesis). 鶹, Montreal, Canada.

Zafran, H. (2015). International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 19(2), 75-82.

Park, M.M., Lencucha, R., Mattingly, C., Zafran, H. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2015). . Implementation Science, 10, 121-130.

Zafran, H. & Tallant, B. (2015). Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 31(4), 328-365.

Zafran, H. & Tallant, B. (2015). 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). . Implementation Science, 9, 119-130.

Zafran, H., Tallant, B., & Gelinas, I. (2012). . International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 16(1), 27-43.

Research Methodology

Zafran, H. (2020). . Sage Research Methods Cases - Medicine & Health.

Park, M. & Zafran, H. (2018). Qualitative Health Research, 28(3), 408-417 [Special Issue: Methods].

Open Access Presentations​

Zafran, H.(2022).Towards Justice: Equity and Accountability in Rehabilitation..University of Alberta, Virtual Speaker Series. [Open access content and learning resources].

Zafran, H. (2021) Canadian Association Occupational Therapists Virtual Conference, May 2021.

Zafran, H.(2021).[Panel]. SciComm Collective

Zafran, H. (2021). [Panel].

Grenier, M-L & Zafran, H.(2020). [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, 鶹

Department: 
Occupational Therapy
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