Sabina Stan

Sabina Stan is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Dublin City University (DCU), affiliated with the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health. She is seconded to the ERC Project 'Labour politics and the new European economic governance' at UCD's Geary Institute. Her roles include teaching modules on health sociology, anthropology, and qualitative research methods. Stan's research focuses on EU healthcare governance, migration, and healthcare privatization, with a regional emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. She contributes to interdisciplinary projects exploring transnational healthcare practices and labor migration impacts. Her work has been published in journals like Social Science and Medicine and Medical Anthropology.

Education: PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Université de Montréal), postdoctoral fellowship at GRIS (Montreal), and earlier studies in Sociology/Anthropology at Université Paris V.

Research Interests: EU economic governance in healthcare, cross-border patient mobility, healthcare privatisation, medical tourism, and transnational collective action. She examines informal healthcare practices and labor migration dynamics in post-socialist contexts.

Grants & Collaborations: Leads or collaborates on projects including the ERC-funded 'European Unions' initiative, the 'Medical Tourism in Romania' study, and cross-border healthcare mobility analyses. Engaged with international networks like the European Patients' Forum and EPSU.

Labs/Teams: Member of DCU's Eurasian Studies Group, Migration Discussion Group, and Population and Global Health Research Cluster. Active in the Geary Institute's ERC project at UCD.