Sherry Glied, Ph.D.

Sherry Glied is professor and chair of in the Department of Health Policy and Management of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She holds a B.A. in economics from Yale University, an M.A. in economics from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

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 women’s health insurance, child health insurance expansions, Medicaid managed care, and the role of insurance in hospital care. Her book on health care reform, Chronic Condition, was published by Harvard University Press in January 1998. She is a past recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award, through which she has been studying the U.S. employer-based health insurance system. Dr. Glied’s work in mental health policy has focused on the problems of women and children. She is a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Network on Mental Health Policy. She is co-author (with Richard Frank) of Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the US Since 1950, which will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2006.

In 2004, Dr. Glied served as chair of the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. She was the 2004 winner of Research!America’s Eugene Garfield Economic Impact of Health Research Award. She is a senior associate editor of Health Services Research; an associate editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law; a member of the editorial board of the Milbank Quarterly; and a member of the editorial committee of the Annual Review of Public Health.