Sneha Jacob, MD

Sneha Jacob is an HIV Specialist with a background in primary care Internal Medicine. She joined the Eric B. Chandler Health Center in August 2012 as Director of HIV Clinical Services. She provides direct care to uninsured and publicly insured HIV patients and supervises all Ryan White-funded Early Intervention Services Program activities, including quality management. She also oversees training internal medicine, family medicine, and psychiatry residents in HIV primary care.

Dr. Jacob completed her undergraduate studies at Yale University, earning a B.A. in Psychology. She then attended New York Medical College, where she obtained her M.D. degree. Following her medical degree, she pursued an M.S. in Epidemiology from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Jacob completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She further specialized by undertaking an HIV Clinical Fellowship at the Columbia University Department of Infectious Diseases/New York State AIDS Institute. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the American Association of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM).

She has worked with and led programs for HIV patients since her residency training at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. During her HIV clinical fellowship, she completed an M.S. in Epidemiology from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where she worked with CHAIN (The Community Health Advisory & Information Network), conducting analyses of a large longitudinal cohort sample of people living with HIV in New York City. Her research involved the relationship between the use of complementary medicine, health outcomes, and mortality of HIV-infected individuals.

Dr. Jacob has cared for HIV patients at the Comprehensive Care Clinic at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, the Columbia University Medical Center Infectious Disease Clinic, and the St. Luke’s Roosevelt Center for Comprehensive Care HIV program. She has also served as an Assistant Medical Director for New York Presbyterian System Select Health and Visiting Nurse Services (VNS) NY Choice, both Medicaid managed care Special Needs Plans (SNP) for people living with HIV/AIDS.

In September 2011, she served as a guest facilitator at the UNAIDS Technical Support Facility South Asia Regional Workshop on Capacity Development for Positive Women in Mumbai, India. There she lectured and mentored HIV-positive female NGO leaders regarding AIDS clinical issues.

Dr. Jacob is presently a member of the South Asian Total Health Initiative (SATHI) at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, for which she leads the SATHI-IDO (Infectious Disease Outreach) project, an initiative to increase HIV testing and linkage to care within the Asian community of central New Jersey. She is involved with developing public health programs to address issues of HIV and immigration at Rutgers and the surrounding communities in the New Brunswick, NJ region.

• NY State Medicaid Redesign Payment Reform & Quality Improvement Workgroup
  • Assisted with developing a series of payment reform & quality measurement recommendations related to health homes, disproportionate shares hospital (DSH), & indigent care funding mechanisms. These were presented to the Medicaid Redesign Team, a New York State governor-established team to restructure Medicaid for increased efficiency and improved patient outcomes. September-November 2010.
• CoSMo (Columbia Student Medical Outreach) Clinic (New York, NY)
  • ​​​​​​​Volunteer attending physician for a medical student-run clinic that provides free primary healthcare to the uninsured population of Washington Heights, NY. 2008-2009.
• Hubert Fellowship (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • ​​​​​​​Center for Disease Control (C.D.C.) July 2004-August 2004.
• David E. Rogers Fellowship (Bangalore, India)
  • ​​​​​​​New York Academy of Medicine, July 2002-August 2002.
• Jane Addams-Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in Philanthropic Studies
  • ​​​​​​​Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, July 2000- June 2001.