Sadena Thevarajah is Managing Director and Partner at HealthBegins. In addition to overseeing key firm functions, she provides sponsorship, direction, subject matter expertise, and facilitation to many HealthBegins projects, including our CalAIM portfolio. She has spent nearly 20 years at the intersection of health law, policy, and stakeholder engagement. She led the first external affairs department at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and shaped patient programs at the American Cancer Society. Previously, she served in the Obama Administration, both in the Office of the HHS Secretary as well as in the White House during the passage and early implementation of the Affordable Care Act. She holds a law degree from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and a public health degree from The Johns Hopkins University.
