John Snyder

Since 2011, Dr. John Snyder has served in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. After serving as the HRSA’s Chief Medical Officer, he later was the founding Director of the Division of Data Governance and Strategic Analysis.

Dr. Snyder and his team focus on initiatives to advance health equity and to better meet the health care needs of people who are geographically isolated and economically or medically vulnerable. This work, based in the HRSA Office of the Administrator, includes endeavors to:

• train and build the nation’s interprofessional health care workforce
• strengthen primary care and preventative health access nationally
• eliminate health disparities by addressing both the medical and social determinants of health
• improve the quality/efficiency/costs of health care delivery through systems-level improvement; and
• use data, research, and evaluation to optimize Federal policy/program oversight and impact.

Dr. Snyder received his BS, MS, and MD degrees from the University of Massachusetts and an MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is board certified and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP). In addition to authoring numerous journal articles, Dr. Snyder is the primary author on two books: Evidence-Based Medical Ethics and Breaking Down Barriers to Care.