Dr. Ghayda Hassan
Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Clinical Psychology, UQAM University
2022, 2024, 2025
Dr. Ghayda Hassan is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at UQAM university in Montreal and has several research, clinical and community based national and international affiliations. She is the director of the Canadian Practitioner Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (RPC-PREV; funded by PS Canada). She is also a UNESCO co-chair in Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (UNESCO-PREV). From 2022 to 2025 she sat as the Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) for the Global Internet Forum for Countering Terroriss (GIFCT). She is a member of the RCMP Management Advisory Board and was a member of the expert advisory group on online safety at the Ministry of Canadian Heritage. She is a researchers and senior clinical consultant at the SHERPA subteam RAPS for Research and Action on Radicalisation and Social Suffering at the CIUSSS Center-West of the island of Montreal.
Her systematic reviews, research and clinical activities are centred around four main areas of clinical cultural psychology: 1) Social suffering, intercommunity relations, hate, racism and extremist violence ; 2) Intervention in family violence & cultural diversity ; 2) Identity, belonging and mental health of children and adolescents from ethnic/religious minorities ; 3) working with vulnerable immigrants and refugees.
The inaugural Eradicate Hate Summit was a truly impressive gathering of leaders dedicated to finding lasting and effective solutions to violent extremism. I was particularly moved by the prominence given to survivors and family members of victims of hate and violence throughout the event. Their stories and those of so many others must be at the center of what we do and why we do it.
