As Manager of Healthcare Solutions, Uzma works with stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem to improve financial health for all. She strives to understand how factors like financial health impact wellness, as well as how the U.S. healthcare system affects financial well-being.

In her role, Uzma partners with large healthcare organizations to develop strategies to serve their financially vulnerable members. She facilitates collaboration across the industry to generate finhealth insights and solutions, including bringing together a group of high-impact healthcare decision-makers in a series of forums on patient financial health. Uzma is also developing the Financial Health Network’s first multi-year, cross-sector report on the burden of medical debt on American consumers, outlining opportunities for health systems, payers, and employers to take action.

Previously, Uzma developed research strategies for healthcare clients as a strategist at Sensis Agency and conducted field research as a program associate at San Francisco AIDS Foundation. She holds her master’s degree in Public Health from Yale University and her bachelor’s degree in South and Southeast Asian Studies from UC Berkeley. Outside of work, Uzma is involved in mutual aid networks and harm reduction organizations in Brooklyn, New York.