Dr Syazlin Sazali was in her third year of medical school when she experienced a life-changing moment. She was walking to class at the MSU Bangalore campus when a local man committed suicide by jumping under a train right in front of her eyes.

 

“The second I saw that I realized the immense challenges that people struggle with. It pushed me to help people pull through. I knew I needed to do more,” she says.

 

Dr Syazlin went on to graduate from MSU International Medical School (IMS) with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 2012 - among the first batch to graduate from the Bangalore campus. After two years of clinical medicine practice, she began Master of Public Health studies at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia. She graduated with Distinction in the Health Economic Evaluation specialization in 2016. 

 

 

Dr Syazlin Sazali is now working at The George Institute for Global Health (TGI) in Sydney, where she lives with her husband – a Senior Software Engineer at Genisys Australia and fellow alumni of Management and Science University (MSU). She is a Project Officer currently working across the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Renal Programmes, managing a burns management quality improvement project and working on a renal clinical trial as well as a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) effectiveness study. She also helps in the administration of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Injury Prevention and Trauma Care as part of the Injury Programme at TGI.

 

 

“During my years of practising medicine, I thought about what I could do to improve hospital care. Patient safety and quality of care should be paramount to health service delivery. We need to be the voice of vulnerable patients,” she continues.

 

 

The George Institute for Global Health (TGI) conducts research on injuries and chronic illnesses that lead the numbers in deaths and disabilities worldwide. With activities seeking to improve the lives of millions globally, particularly in resource-poor areas, its mission resounds with Dr Syazlin’s own.

 

“My workplace is among the best medical research institutes in the world. We are affiliated with prestigious universities in Australia, the UK, China, and India. I work with prominent researchers who inspire me every day, some of whom are authors of the textbooks I used during my undergraduate and postgraduate years. The work we do at TGI aims at finding better treatment, as well as providing better care and supporting healthier societies,” she says.

 

 

The MSU alumna is proud of her Malaysian roots. Born and bred in a small village on Langkawi Island, she finds ways to contribute back. Her current project involves a collaboration between nephrologists from Australia and the Malaysian Society of Nephrology in a global clinical trial project – a quality improvement study on dialysis patients, who, as a group, have generally higher morbidity and higher mortality compared with the general population. Diabetes being the primary cause of end-stage renal failure, and Malaysia presenting the second-highest incidence rate of kidney failure globally, the project bears personal significance. Many of Dr Syazlin's relatives are sufferers, and a few have died of kidney diseases.

 

Dr Syazlin Sazali reflects on the education that had prepared her to become who she is today.

 

“My undergraduate years on the MBBS Programme at the MSU offshore campus in India were filled with lessons of kindness and kinship. When we missed being home in Malaysia, thoughtful gestures by the teaching faculty always lifted our spirit. My learning experiences in empathy through community engagement built my character on the MSU 2G culture of Giving and Grateful. I hope to inspire fellow MSUrians into giving back to society the same way I have been inspired and empowered by the great people in my life.”

 

 

Finding her calling in research, at MSU

On her way to oncology

Besting it in Bangalore

Brand MSU International: MSI Colombo

International learning at IMS

Making extraordinary, with an offshore learning experience

All hands, all heart

Education for all: Anatomy for the army

Medical School Story: United Ambition

Finding his voice as muezzin and medic

Living her dream in Oxford through MSU

Stories from Medical School: Another chance at life

A holistic, internationally recognized medical education

 

MSU Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

MSU Bachelor in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Hons)

MSU Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Hons)

MSU Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Hons)

MSU Bachelor in Health Science Management (Hons)

MSU Master in Biomedical Sciences

MSU Master of Science (Medical Physiology)

MSU Master of Science in Public Health

MSU Master of Anatomy

MSU Doctor of Philosophy (by Research) in Biomedicine

MSU Doctor of Philosophy (Health Science)

MSU Master in Science (by Research) Biomedicine

 

 



Dr Syazlin Sazali was in her third year of medical school when she experienced a life-changing moment. She was walking to class at the MSU Bangalore campus when a local man committed suicide by jumping under a train right in front of her eyes.

 

“The second I saw that I realized the immense challenges that people struggle with. It pushed me to help people pull through. I knew I needed to do more,” she says.

 

Dr Syazlin went on to graduate from MSU International Medical School (IMS) with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 2012 - among the first batch to graduate from the Bangalore campus. After two years of clinical medicine practice, she began Master of Public Health studies at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia. She graduated with Distinction in the Health Economic Evaluation specialization in 2016. 

 

 

Dr Syazlin Sazali is now working at The George Institute for Global Health (TGI) in Sydney, where she lives with her husband – a Senior Software Engineer at Genisys Australia and fellow alumni of Management and Science University (MSU). She is a Project Officer currently working across the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Renal Programmes, managing a burns management quality improvement project and working on a renal clinical trial as well as a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) effectiveness study. She also helps in the administration of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Injury Prevention and Trauma Care as part of the Injury Programme at TGI.

 

 

“During my years of practising medicine, I thought about what I could do to improve hospital care. Patient safety and quality of care should be paramount to health service delivery. We need to be the voice of vulnerable patients,” she continues.

 

 

The George Institute for Global Health (TGI) conducts research on injuries and chronic illnesses that lead the numbers in deaths and disabilities worldwide. With activities seeking to improve the lives of millions globally, particularly in resource-poor areas, its mission resounds with Dr Syazlin’s own.

 

“My workplace is among the best medical research institutes in the world. We are affiliated with prestigious universities in Australia, the UK, China, and India. I work with prominent researchers who inspire me every day, some of whom are authors of the textbooks I used during my undergraduate and postgraduate years. The work we do at TGI aims at finding better treatment, as well as providing better care and supporting healthier societies,” she says.

 

 

The MSU alumna is proud of her Malaysian roots. Born and bred in a small village on Langkawi Island, she finds ways to contribute back. Her current project involves a collaboration between nephrologists from Australia and the Malaysian Society of Nephrology in a global clinical trial project – a quality improvement study on dialysis patients, who, as a group, have generally higher morbidity and higher mortality compared with the general population. Diabetes being the primary cause of end-stage renal failure, and Malaysia presenting the second-highest incidence rate of kidney failure globally, the project bears personal significance. Many of Dr Syazlin's relatives are sufferers, and a few have died of kidney diseases.

 

Dr Syazlin Sazali reflects on the education that had prepared her to become who she is today.

 

“My undergraduate years on the MBBS Programme at the MSU offshore campus in India were filled with lessons of kindness and kinship. When we missed being home in Malaysia, thoughtful gestures by the teaching faculty always lifted our spirit. My learning experiences in empathy through community engagement built my character on the MSU 2G culture of Giving and Grateful. I hope to inspire fellow MSUrians into giving back to society the same way I have been inspired and empowered by the great people in my life.”

 

 

Finding her calling in research, at MSU

On her way to oncology

Besting it in Bangalore

Brand MSU International: MSI Colombo

International learning at IMS

Making extraordinary, with an offshore learning experience

All hands, all heart

Education for all: Anatomy for the army

Medical School Story: United Ambition

Finding his voice as muezzin and medic

Living her dream in Oxford through MSU

Stories from Medical School: Another chance at life

A holistic, internationally recognized medical education

 

MSU Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

MSU Bachelor in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Hons)

MSU Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Hons)

MSU Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Hons)

MSU Bachelor in Health Science Management (Hons)

MSU Master in Biomedical Sciences

MSU Master of Science (Medical Physiology)

MSU Master of Science in Public Health

MSU Master of Anatomy

MSU Doctor of Philosophy (by Research) in Biomedicine

MSU Doctor of Philosophy (Health Science)

MSU Master in Science (by Research) Biomedicine