Sarah Henderson is a PhD student in the department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Sarah’s interests include health services research, population mental health, Medicaid reform, and state health policy. Before beginning the doctoral program at Hopkins, Sarah worked at a public policy research center in Tennessee and focused on state-level policies and programs that could better support youth mental health, in addition to mapping out disparities in current programs and services statewide. Prior to this role, she worked as a health policy and health services research analyst at Vanderbilt’s Department of Health Policy. In this position, she supported several faculty projects primarily focused on health outcomes of Medicaid beneficiaries, specifically related to behavioral health and substance use disorders. Her work at Vanderbilt also included projects focused on the costs of prescription drugs, medication adherence, and cost conversations between patients and their health care providers. Sarah received her Master of Public Health degree from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in 2018. Her primary research role involved coordinating a patient navigation program for metastatic breast cancer patients at a safety net hospital. She also received a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences and Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Furman University in 2016.