Profile

Sherry Glied

• Chair and Professor of the Health Policy and Management Department
  Committee on Global Thought
  Columbia University

Sherry Glied is Chair and Professor of the Health Policy and Management Department at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Sherry Glied’s principal areas of research are in health policy reform and mental healthcare policy. In 1992–1993, she served as a Senior Economist for health care and labor market policy on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and participated in the Clinton Health Care Task Force. Dr. Glied’s principal areas of research are in health care financing, health system design, workforce policy, and mental health care. She is an author of recently published articles and reports on managed care, women’s health, child health, and health insurance expansions. In recent health insurance-related research, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she has been examining methods for modeling health insurance expansion programs. Because of her work in these areas, She is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers. She is also continuing work on the U.S. employer-based health insurance system. In research sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, Dr. Glied has been studying the characteristics of uninsured Americans and novel strategies to expand health insurance coverage to them. She is currently conducting research, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, on the well-being of people with illness over the past 50 years. She has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and to the Board of AcademyHealth. Her book on health care reform, Chronic Condition, was published by Harvard University Press in January 1998. Her book on mental health policy, with Richard Frank, Better But Not Well, Mental Health Policy in the U.S. since 1950, was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2006.