Suhanee Mitragotri is a first-year medical student at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and graduated from Harvard College in May 2025 with a Concentration in Neuroscience and a Secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. She is passionate about not only providing high-quality care to her future patients, but also cares deeply about addressing the social determinants of health that impact people’s access to healthcare and approaching medicine through a public health lens. Specifically, she is committed to improving patient care through a dual approach: implementing community-based health initiatives that meet people where they are and advocating for systemic policy changes to impact the larger healthcare system.

Suhanee is particularly passionate about emergency response and community health education. As an undergraduate student, she developed an opioid overdose prevention and naloxone education curriculum in Massachusetts to train high school students on how to recognize opioid overdose signs and respond with naloxone. In parallel, she also engaged in legislative advocacy to advance educational policy that standardizes this life-saving training in schools across the state.

Additionally, Suhanee is dedicated to research and has published articles in numerous academic journals including The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, and Addiction. Her research focuses on the opioid overdose crisis, harm reduction, optimizing emergency department operations, and improving access to care.