McGill University Impacts of Islamophobia on Muslim Mental Health

On January 29, 2026, McGill will commemorate the ninth anniversary of this tragedy with a commemorative lecture.

Impacts of Islamophobia on Muslim Mental Health By Dr. Salam El-Majzoub, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Jewish General Hospital and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University

Date: January 29, 2026

Time: 4:30-6:00pm

Location: McGill University, Robert Vogel Council Room (Leacock 232), 855 Sherbrooke Street West

Dr. Salam El-Majzoub is an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at McGill University. She obtained her medical degree at Université de Montreal and completed her residency in psychiatry and her subspecialty training in child and adolescent psychiatry at McGill University. She works as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, serving a diverse population of children and youth between the ages of 5 and 25 at the Jewish General Hospital.

Her research interests have focused on the mental health needs of marginalized cultural communities and culturally appropriate public health measures, clinical care and training. She has co-authored chapters in the books Islamophobia and Psychiatry, recognition, prevention and treatment and Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation; perspectives on media, academia and socio-political scapes from Europe and Canada. She is currently interested in youth’s contemporary idioms of distress and the phenomenon of self-psychopathologization.