Her research interest includes early childhood development, paternal roles in child development, family-, school- and neighborhood-level influence on child physical and mental well-being, social determinants of health, and health disparities across racial and ethnic groups. She is also interested in health and social consequences of aging in China as well as China’s health care system reform. She received her doctorate degree from the Pardee RAND Graduate School in 2007.

Early childhood well-being; aging population; social determinants of health; health disparities; international health; health system in China.

Bernard Guyer, Sai Ma. "Conceptualizing Health Disparities: Panel Reflections." Pediatrics, 2009; 124(Supplement_3): S212 - S213.

Bernard Guyer, Sai Ma, Holly Grason, Kevin D. Frick, Deborah Perry, Alyssa Sharkey, Jennifer McIntosh. "Early Childhood Health Promotion and its Life-course Health Consequences." Academic Pediatrics, 2009, May-Jun;9(3):142-149.e1-71.

Kevin D. Frick, Sai Ma. “Overcoming challenges for the economic evaluation of investments in children’s health.” Academic Pediatrics, 2009; May-Jun;9(3):136-7.

Sai Ma, Neeraj Sood. 2008 "A Comparison of the Health Systems in China and India." RAND report OP-212-CAPP Available at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP212/

Brief available at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP521-2008-06/

Sai Ma. "Paternal Race/Ethnicity and Birth Outcomes." American Journal of Public Health, 2008; 98(12): 2285-2292

Marc Elliott, Brian Finch, David Klein, Sai Ma, Do P, Beckett MK, Orr N, Lurie N. “Sample Designs for Measuring the Health of Small Racial Ethnic Subgroups.” Statistics in Medicine, 2008; 27(20): 4016-4029

Soeren Mattke, Michael Seid, Sai Ma. "Evidence for the Impact of Disease Management: Is $1 Billion a Year a Good Investment?" American Journal of Managed Care, 2007; 13:670-676

Sai Ma, Khoa Truong, Roland Sturm. “School characteristics and behavior problems of U.S. fifth-graders.” Psychiatric Services, 2007; 58(5):610.

Sai Ma, Michael Seid. “Using Foresight Methods to Anticipate Future Threats: The Case of Disease Management.” Health Care Management Review, 2006; 31(4):270-279.

Khoa D Truong, Sai Ma. “A Systematic Review of Relations between Neighborhoods and Mental Health.” The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 2006; 9(3): 137-154.