Sabrina Jamal-Eddine, PhD, BSN, RN

Dr. Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine, PhD BSN RN is an Arab American Registered Nurse, Nurse Scientist, and interdisciplinary Disability Justice scholar. Dr. Jamal-Eddine graduated with her PhD in Nursing alongside an interdisciplinary certificate in Disability Ethics from University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)/ Dr. Jamal-Eddine’s doctoral research explored the use of critical narrative pedagogy to educate nursing students about disability, ableism, and disability justice in the context of healthcare. Dr. Jamal-Eddine will advance this research through her postdoctoral fellowship in UIC’s Department of Disability and Human Development. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities (NOND) as well as UIC Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities. Dr. Jamal-Eddine hopes to create transformative change within healthcare education praxis by developing engaging pedagogic strategies to educate healthcare students about intersectional identity-based oppression.

During her doctoral program, Dr. Jamal-Eddine served as a Summer Fellow at a residential National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute housed at Arizona State University (2023), a Summer Fellow in Andrew W. Mellon’s National Humanities Without Walls program at University of Michigan (2022), a Summer Research Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute (2021), and an Illinois Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (LEND) Fellow (2019-2020). Sabrina’s long-term goal is to found an interdisciplinary, applied public-humanities community-engaged healthcare equity center in a university that confronts healthcare inequity, violence, and oppression and promotes liberation, humanization, and belongingness for all patients, students, and practitioners.

Prior to earning her PhD, Dr. Jamal-Eddine graduated from The Ohio State University (OSU) with a double major in Nursing and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies where she also founded a hiphop literacy-spoken word poetry program for incarcerated youth, performed a spoken word TEDxTalk on her experience with Xenophobia and Islamophobia, served as President of OSU’s Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Honor Society (Triota), worked for the Department of Social Change, and worked for her College of Nursing as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Student Advocate.

Dr. Jamal-Eddine is committed to the way in which research informs policy and transforms practice on both institutional and interpersonal levels. She hopes to continue her role as a multiply marginalized leader committed to advancing disability justice, healthcare justice, racial justice, education justice, environmental justice, and dismantling domestic police violence, domestic gun violence, and international militarized violence. Dr. Jamal-Eddine firmly believes that collective struggle and transformative leadership, advocacy, policy are needed to create social change. Dr. Jamal-Eddine hopes to harness her interdisciplinary education, her skills as a nurse researcher and Registered Nurse, her lived experience, and her position as an artist and storyteller to progress toward justice for our communities.