Sara Debab

Sara Debab is a policy analyst in the Health Care Transformation Team. She supports projects within Medicare transformation, federal health care policy, and North Carolina Medicaid. Sara’s experiences span across a variety of health care payment and delivery topics, including Medicare risk adjustment, accountable care and value-based payment models, Medicaid program and benefit design, and broader sociopolitical determinants of health.  Sara is trained in policy analysis and translation, conducting qualitative and community-engaged research, building community-academic partnerships, and convening multistakeholder coalitions. Prior to joining Duke-Margolis, Sara was a policy intern at Aledade, Inc. and a research assistant in the Kalpulli Research Group at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Sara holds a B.S. in interdisciplinary science from Virginia Commonwealth University.