Sandy Sufian, PhD, MPH
Professor, History of Medicine and Health Humanities
Professor, Disability Studies
Department of Medical Education
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College of Medicine East, Room 980
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About
Sandy Sufian is a Professor in the University IIlinois-Chicago’s Department of Medical Education and in Disability and Human Development. She was a Public Voices OpEd fellow and is part of their alumni program. Sandy got her Ph.D. from New York University and her M.P.H. at Oregon Health Sciences University. She was a postdoc in Health Services Research at the Center for Health Research of Kaiser Permanente in the Northwest. Sandy is a historian of medicine and disability by training.
For the past five years, she has also been conducting research and patient-centered outcomes projects with grants from PCORI and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues for women with Cystic Fibrosis. Dr. Sufian co-founded the Cystic Fibrosis Reproductive and Sexual Health Collaborative (CFReSHC), a partnership with the CF female community to identify research priorities and questions about SRH and CF. She was the Co-PI for a recent MENSTRUAL study that examined CF symptoms across the menstrual cycle. She was the PI for a PCORI Engagement Award that applied the CFReSHC framework for devising patient-driven research questions in the breast cancer community. She has published three books, numerous articles, and several op-eds. She teaches medical and PhD students about the intersection of health, disability, and disease in society.
Research and Teaching Interests
Dr. Sufian specializes in the history of medicine and disability. She has published two books: Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947 (U Chicago Press, 2007) and Reapproaching the Border: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel/Palestine (Rowman Littlefield, 2007). Sufian is currently working on a book project about the history of disability and adoption in America in the twentieth century. She teaches courses on the history of disability and the modern history of medicine and public health to medical students, PhD students and undergraduate students. She co-organizes the Health and Society working group of the Institute for the Humanities and is the founder of the Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa. Sufian is chair of the Disability History Association and serves on the editorial boards of Disability Studies Quarterly and the International Journal of Middle East Studies.