Kazi Sadia

Kazi Sadia is a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL North America, where she supports government partnership initiatives for connecting J-PAL researchers with state and local governments to use randomized controlled trials for impact evaluations in the public sector. She also supports the Evidence to Scale (E2S) project and the US Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI), which aims to make the US healthcare system more effective and equitable through randomized evaluation strategies.

Prior to joining J-PAL in 2024, Sadia worked at a policy think-tank of the government of Bangladesh for about four years. During this time, she specialized in leading public, private, and community stakeholder collaborations to conduct policy research, capacity building, and policy advocacy initiatives. She is also an International Fellow of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Sadia holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from Michigan State University and a bachelor's and a master's in economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.