Sarah Wells Kocsis is a senior director at the Milken Institute, where she oversees the Public Health programmatic portfolio, focusing on mental health, prevention, chronic disease, health equity, and infrastructure, and is responsible for day-to-day operations. In her prior role as director, Wells Kocsis led research projects on public-private partnerships in public health, 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 BS in biology from Tulane University.