Dr. Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine, PhD RN (she/her) is an Arab disabled queer woman, health humanities nurse scientist, disability justice scholar-activist, and spoken word poet. Dr. Jamal-Eddine completed her PhD in Nursing with a certificate in Disability Ethics at University of Illinois Chicago where her 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, community-based interventions, and transformative policies 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
Dr. Jamal-Eddine has been awarded an array of competitive training fellowships: Dr. Jamal-Eddine is a 2026 Johns Hopkins' Nursing Science Incubator in Social Determinants of Health (N-SISS) Fellow, a 2025-26 Hispanic Serving Research University (HSRU) Fellow, a 2025 NIH National Institute on Aging Butler-Williams Scholar, and a 2024 Longmore Institute Emerge Disability Justice Fellow. Prior to her postdoc, Sabrina was a summer fellow at UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, Arizona State University’s residential National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute, and the Humanities Without Walls program hosted at University of Michigan. Dr. Jamal-Eddine’s long-term goal is to found an interdisciplinary, applied public-humanities healthcare equity center in a university that confronts healthcare inequity, violence, and oppression and promotes liberation, humanization, and belongingness for patients, students, and practitioners.