Director (Acting), Office of Planning, Analysis and Evaluation and HRSA Chief Data Officer
Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
John Snyder serves as the Acting Director of the Office of Planning, Analysis and Evaluation and the Chief Data Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). In this role, Dr. Snyder provides agency-wide leadership for performance management, strategic planning, data governance, and innovation activities to strengthen HRSA programs and operations.
Dr. Snyder oversees development and implementation of an agency-wide strategy aiming to strengthen HRSA’s data assets along with leading a portfolio of data analytic projects that strategically tap into this wealth of data. Investigations aim to provide meaningful, actionable intelligence to enhance HRSA operations, optimize program oversight and impact, increase public awareness of HRSA’s investments, direct resources effectively, and detect new opportunities to address the needs of HRSA’s priority populations and communities.
Before joining HRSA, Dr. Snyder previously served as the Assistant Program Director of the Osler Internal Medical Residency Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital and as the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director and Vice Chair of Medicine at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine affiliate hospital, New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
Dr. Snyder is the primary author of two books and numerous journal articles, and he maintains a part-time primary care clinical practice outside of HRSA. He earned his BS, MS, and MD degrees from the University of Massachusetts, an MPH degree from UNC Chapel Hill, and completed his Internal Medicine residency training and served as Chief Medical Resident at Brown University.