Sneha Dave

Sneha Dave is founder and executive director of Generation Patient, an organization that develops support systems for adolescents and young adults with chronic conditions across the United States and internationally. She is proud to work with a team composed entirely of young adults with chronic conditions and to keep Generation Patient independent of funding from the private health care industry. Dave has spoken on Capitol Hill, featured nationally on C-SPAN, and is a past contributor for U.S. News and World Report. She is a member of the Midwest Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council, an independent appraisal committee of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review. She also serves on the patient panel for the British Medical Journal, on a grantmaking committee with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and as part of the Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency advisory board. For her work, the We Are Family Foundation selected her as one of the most influential teenagers in 2018, and she was recognized as an American Association of People with Disabilities Emerging Leader in 2020. Dave is a 2020 graduate of Indiana University, majoring in chronic illness advocacy and journalism. She was awarded two academic fellowships from the Association of Health Care Journalists.