Nowshin Islam
BS, Medical Student
City University of New York (CUNY) School of Medicine/Sophie Davis Biomedical Education Program
Nowshin.stuy@gmail.com
New York, NY, USA

Nowshin Islam is a third-year medical student at the CUNY School of Medicine’s seven-year BS/MD program. She graduated from the bachelor’s portion of the program as a 2022 Valedictorian Candidate and is a two-time recipient of the CUNY School of Medicine Dean’s Excellence Award. For the past four years, she has led overdose prevention training for undergraduate and medical students. She is also the founder and program director of the CUNY Opioid Overdose Prevention Program. As the President of CUNY's PHR Chapter, she has founded the CUNY Human Rights Clinic - the first student-led asylum clinic in the CUNY system. She is deeply passionate about global health and seeks to mobilize, empower, and equip medical students and physicians with the skills, knowledge, and opportunity to support immigrant, refugee, and asylee health and justice.