Sonia Sarkar is Director of Provider Solutions at AVIA Healthcare Innovation, a provider-led accelerator that enables health systems to identify and implement disruptive technology solutions that enable better health. Previously, she served as Special Advisor and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Health Leads, a national organization that envisions a healthcare system that addresses all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. In her roles, she oversaw the CEO’s internal and external initiatives and advised on sector leadership and strategy development.

As an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, Sonia co-founded and served as campus coordinator for Health Leads’ Baltimore site, and also completed a term as a student member of the organization’s national Board of Directors. Subsequently, Sonia joined the Health Leads staff team as a Baltimore Program Manager, where she built clinical relationships and oversaw the development and management of Health Leads’ undergraduate workforce.

Sonia is a Truman Scholar, a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, a Harvard Medical School InciteHealth Fellow, an AcademyHealth Population Health Scholar, and founding board member for the Boston Young Healthcare Professionals and Healthworks Community Fitness. She holds B.A. degrees in public health and international studies from Johns Hopkins University and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She is also a published poet, with work appearing in the American Journal of Nursing and the Bellevue Literary Review, among others.