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Palliative Care Physician, Health Justice Advocate

Naheed Dosani, MD

Naheed Dosani, MD

Naheed Dosani is a palliative care physician and health justice advocate in Toronto, and the founder of Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless, a mobile program bringing hospice-level care to people who are unhoused or structurally vulnerable. He teaches at the University of Toronto and McMaster University.

His advocacy connects end-of-life care to housing, poverty, drug policy and racism, and he is a widely followed public voice on health equity in Canada. He has received national honors for his work with marginalized populations.