Nadia Beyzaei is a transdisciplinary researcher, designer, educator, and health design consultant with more than a decade of experience addressing complex health and wellness challenges through design innovation, communication and service design strategy, and behavioural science research. She is the founder of a design innovation consultancy based in Vancouver, Canada, where she leads strategic design initiatives that advance care and address inequities across health and public service systems.

Nadia’s work centres on community-engaged design interventions that amplify the voices of underserved populations. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences and Mathematics from the University of British Columbia, a Communication Design Certificate from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and a Master of Research in Healthcare and Design from the Royal College of Art, where she explored how design can enhance engagement with evidence-based medicine.

As a Sessional Faculty member at Emily Carr University, Nadia teaches in both the Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media and the Faculty of Graduate Studies, integrating equity-centred design, co-design, and experiential learning into her courses. From 2017 to 2024, she contributed to the growth and evolution of the Health Design Lab at Emily Carr, leading the lab in 2022–23 and serving as design lead on service design and social innovation projects focused on care delivery, complex care needs, Indigenous health, women’s health, and aging.

Since 2014, Nadia has also worked within a behavioural-health research lab at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute led by an MD/PhD clinician-scientist, contributing to clinical innovation and applied research with children with neurodevelopmental conditions. As a design consultant and research associate, she contributes to global advocacy initiatives related to pediatric sleep health.

Through participatory research and design, Nadia has worked with clinicians, families, researchers, and designers to co-create interventions that improve accessibility and systemic impact. Through her work, Nadia highlights the critical role of design in creating more equitable futures.