Suzane Nazir, LAW ’25, is a 2023 Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She serves as 1L Representative of the Intellectual Property Law Society and Co-Founder/Vice-president of the Muslim Law Students Association. Suzane graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.S. in Public Health and coursework in Cellular and Molecular Biology. While at USF, she represented the College of Public Health for two terms as its Senator. She undertook various policy projects, including a resolution to Florida Congress to mandate Aetrial External Defibrillators in public spaces to reduce preventable deaths from cardiac arrests and a proposal with campus administration for an on-campus ambulance to treat and transport injured students to local hospitals free of charge. She also served as her Student Government’s Senate President and Ethics Chair.
Suzane was recognized by the U.S. Office of The Surgeon General in 2018, receiving the Public Health Leadership Scholar award, where she was one of ten selected to intern with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and their various agencies. Suzane also served as State Vice President for Florida HOSA- FHP Inc., an organization aimed at molding health professionals and organizing and leading conferences with over 14,000 members in attendance.
In Washington D.C., Suzane will intern at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), a nonprofit dedicated to improving the health of communities by strengthening and advocating for local health departments, where she will identify legal barriers to harm reduction policies and programs. Her policy interests include public health, health law, intellectual property, and the nexus between health and technology law.