Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine, PhD, RN
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Disability and Human Development
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About
Sabrina Jamal-Eddine, PhD BSN RN is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Disability and Human Development at University of Illinois Chicago. Dr. Jamal-Eddine is an interdisciplinary nurse scientist and disability justice scholar-activist who earned her PhD in Nursing and Certificate in Disability Ethics from University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Dr. Jamal-Eddine's doctoral research explored the use of spoken word poetry as a form of critical narrative pedagogy to educate nursing students about disability, ableism, and disability justice. Dr. Jamal-Eddine's goal is to create transformative change within nursing education and practice through developing engaging decolonial pedagogic strategies and community-based interventions rooted in the lived experiences of multiply marginalized disabled people. Dr. Jamal-Eddine simultaneously investigates the ways in which unjust systems of oppression manufacture disability, both domestically and transnationally. Her long-term goal is to found an 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 marginalized patients, students, and practitioners.
Sabrina has performed a spoken word TEDxTalk on her experience with Xenophobia and Islamophobia. This can be found here: go.osu.edu/tedxsabrina
Selected Grants
Arizona State University's Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics (Seed Funding Grant), Crip critique: A spoken word poem and performance on the lived pasts and imagined futures of work, PI
University of Illinois Chicago's Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (Dissertation Grant), Exploring spoken word poetry as critical pedagogy in nursing: A focus on disability justice education, PI
University of Illinois Chicago's Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Exploring Intimate Partner Violence Among LGBTQ+ Arab Americans: A Phenomenologically Grounded Qualitative Research Study, Co-I
Selected Publications
Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis
Assets, not burdens: Disabled students in nursing education
Disability and accommodation use in US Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs
Pedagogical flexibility in action: Creative social determinants of health project
Review of Just care: Messy entanglements of disability, dependency, and desire
Service to Community
Dr. Jamal-Eddine serves on the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities (NOND) and UIC Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities. She is currently in the process of founding the Disabled Nurse National Solidarity Collective, a grassroots organization for multiply marginalized disabled nurses, nursing students, and nurse educators committed to disability justice and the praxis of cross-movement solidarity: https://disablednursensc5.wordpress.com/
Notable Honors
2024, National League of Nursing’s Equity-Minded Nurse Rising Star, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AARP Foundation
2023, Diverse Rising Graduate Scholar, Diverse Issues in Higher Education
2023, Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award Honorable Mention, University of Illinois Chicago
Education
PhD, Nursing, University of Illinois Chicago, 2023
Certificate in Disability Ethics, University of Illinois Chicago, 2023
BSN, Nursing and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University, 2019
Sabrina was recently selected as a 2026 Johns Hopkins School of Nursing N-SISS Fellow (Nursing Science Incubator for Social Determinants of Health Solutions). Sabrina is currently an inaugural 2025-26 Hispanic Serving Research University (HSRU) Postdoctoral Fellow and 2025 National Institute of Aging (NIA) Butler-Williams Scholar. She has previously served as a 2024-25 Emerge Disability Justice Fellow through San Francisco State University's Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, a Summer Fellow at a residential NEH Summer Institute 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 IL LEND trainee (2019-2020).
Licensures and Certifications
RN License