Bio
Dr. Shazeen Suleman (she/her) is a Clinical Associate Professor in General Pediatrics at Stanford University. She is the Co-Director of Community Engagement with the Office of Child Health Equity and a Global Health Faculty Fellow. She holds a courtesy appointment with the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine and is an Affiliate Scientist with the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions.
Prior to joining Stanford, she developed the Compass Clinic, a trauma-informed, multi-disciplinary clinic that cares for newcomer children with special healthcare needs, the only one of its kind in Ontario, Canada. Her research (www.thecompasslab.org) uses community-based participatory research methods (CBPR) to address health disparities for migrant children with special healthcare needs through co-developing and evaluating interventions and policies. She holds multiple grants from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), including a prestigious New Investigator Grant. Her work is fundamentally guided the communities she serves. She has a long history of community engagement and organizing, beginning from when she co-founded the MusicBox Children's Charity (www.musicboxcc.com), a now national organization that has provided free music education programming to support whole child development to nearly 20,000 marginalized children across Canada, with over 30 community partners.
She is recognized as a national expert in Canada for caring for migrant children and holds multiple leadership roles, including the chair of the AAP Chapter 1 Immigrant Child Health Committee, the Newcomer Child Health Special Interest Group and the Caring for Kids New to Canada Taskforce with the Canadian Pediatric Society. Her longstanding relationships with refugee support agencies in Canada and the United States, including shelters, settlement agencies, governmental institutions, local and federal policymakers and clinical and community advocates locally and across both countries help her contribute to advocacy efforts to improve the lives of migrant children in North America.
