Suzanne Zhou

Suzanne Zhou

Manager – Prevention

Suzanne Zhou is the Manager for Prevention at the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, based in Melbourne, Australia. Suzanne leads the McCabe Centre’s work to support countries to adopt effective regulatory measures to prevent non-communicable diseases, defend them from legal challenge by commercial interests, and ensure policy coherence between preventive health and broader legal frameworks such as trade, investment, human rights, and the environment.

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, and is currently a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, teaching law and global health in the masters programme.

Suzanne has a background in public international law, and 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 the University of Cambridge, an LLB/BMus from the University of Melbourne, and the Hague Academy of International Law’s Diploma in Public International Law. She is admitted to practice law in Victoria, Australia.