Sarah Wells Kocsis is a senior director at the Milken Institute. She oversees the Public Health programmatic pillar which focuses on mental health, prevention, chronic disease, infrastructure, and health equity, and also is responsible for day-to-day operations. In her prior role as director, Wells Kocsis led research projects on public-private partnerships in public healthy, chronic kidney disease, obesity, the pharmaceutical supply chain, and employer-sponsored health care. As a recognized thought leader on these issues, Wells Kocsis speaks externally about this work at conferences, roundtables, and with the media. For the past three decades, she has helped organizations at the nexus of science, innovation, business, and philanthropy drive public-policy solutions to optimize patient access to care. Wells Kocsis has held senior-level positions at Boston Scientific, Amgen, Hologic, and the Society for Women's Health Research. She holds a master's in business administration from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business and a bachelor of science in biology from Tulane University.