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Sherry A. M. Glied
SPH/HPM, 600 W. 168 St, 6th Floor
Professor of Public Health
Phone: 212-305-0299
sag1@columbia.edu
Biography:
Sherry Glied is professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
From 1992 to 1993, she served as a senior economist for health care and labor market policy to the President's Council of Economic Advisers, under both President Bush and President Clinton. In the latter part of her term, she was a participant in President Clinton's Health Care Task Force. From 1996 to 1997, she was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
Professor Glied's principal areas of research are in health policy reform and mental health care policy. Her research on health policy has focused on the financing of health care services in the U.S. She is an author of recently published articles and reports on managed care, women's health, child health, and health insurance expansions. She published a book on health care reform titled Chronic Condition (Harvard 1998). She is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award through which she has been studying the U.S. employer-based health insurance system. She is currently conducting research sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund on the characteristics of uninsured Americans and on strategies to expand health insurance coverage.
Her work in mental health policy has focused on the problems of women and children. She is an author of two reports to the Commonwealth Commission on Women's Health on the changing pattern of mental health service use by women and has published several studies in this field. She has also written extensively on the economic determinants of children's mental health service utilization. She is a member of the MacArthur Foundation's Network on Mental Health Policy. In conjunction with the network, she is coauthoring a volume with Richard Frank that examines the well-being of people with mental illness over the past fifty years.
She holds a BA in economics from Yale University, an MA in economics from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.