Sarah Matousek

Dr. Matousek has more than 20 years of healthcare, teaching and research experience, which includes strategic planning/implementation, change management, health policy implementation, data and analytics, quantitative and qualitative research, operations, and program development. Sarah’s industry work has included a broad range of projects in multiple health care sectors with specific expertise in workforce design and funding, population health programs, health policy implementation, behavioral health models, and health related social needs.

Dr. Matousek’ s doctoral research at the University of Rochester centered around neuroinflammation in the brain and how it affects the pathologies in Alzheimer’s disease.  Her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School followed the complement system in neurodevelopment and the aging brain.  Since moving into public health, she founded and still co-operates a surgical navigation program in rural Haiti and she sits on the board for Care 2 Communities, a non-profit organization providing primary care in Northern Haiti.

Dr. Matousek holds a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from Boston University of Public Health and a Ph.D. in Neurobiology & Anatomy from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Gonzaga University and an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington School of Medicine.