Satya Sarma is a physician and public health administrator.

She has previously served as medical director at the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Arizona’s Medicaid agency. She has also been a health care consultant, professor at Arizona State University, and as an executive in managed care settings in the Phoenix metro area.

Her research interests include population health management, health care workforce development, quality improvement, public policy, health care finance, and health equity and integration.

She earned her medical doctorate from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and did her internal medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.