Suzanne Zhou

Overview

Suzanne Zhou is a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and the Manager for Prevention at the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer. Suzanne leads the McCabe Centre’s work to support countries to adopt effective regulatory measures to prevent non-communicable diseases, defend public health laws from legal challenge, and ensure policy coherence between health and trade and investment law. She has worked with more than 100 countries through the McCabe Centre’s role as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Law and Noncommunicable Disease and a Knowledge Hub of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Suzanne is a member of World Cancer Research Fund International’s Policy Advisory Group, the Union for International Cancer Control’s expert task force on air pollution and cancer, and Cancer Council Australia’s Nutrition, Alcohol, and Physical Activity Committee. She served as co-director (with Professor Shinya Murase) of the Hague Academy’s 2020-2021 Centre for Studies and Research, on epidemics and international law.

Suzanne previously worked at Lawyers Collective in New Delhi as a research officer supporting the mandate of Anand Grover as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, and as a lawyer in the Victorian Department of Education and Training. She holds an LLM in international law from Cambridge, an LLB/BMus from the University of Melbourne, and the Hague Academy of International Law’s Diploma in Public International Law.