Sherry Glied

Sherry Glied is Dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. In 1989–2013, she was professor of health policy and management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and in July 2010–August 2012, she served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. She had previously served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1992–1993, under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and participated in the Clinton Health Care Task Force. She has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Social Insurance, and served as a member of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking. Glied’s principal areas of research are in health policy reform and mental health care policy. She is the author of Chronic Condition (1998); Better But Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the US since 1950, with Richard Frank (2006) and co-editor, with Peter C. Smith, of The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics (2011). Glied holds a BA from Yale, an MA from the University of Toronto, and a PhD from Harvard University.