Sherry Glied

Sherry Glied is dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University in 2013.  Before that, she was a professor and chair at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

In 2010, Glied was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services, and served in that capacity from July 2010 through August 2012. She had previously served as senior economist for health care and labor market policy 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.  In 2016-2017, she served as a member of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking.  She is currently chairing New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s Commission on the Future of Health Care.

Glied is an economist. Her principal areas of research are in health policy reform and mental health care policy. She is the author of “Chronic Condition,” (Harvard University Press, 1998), coauthor (with Richard Frank) of “Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the U.S. Since 1950,” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), and coeditor (with Peter C. Smith) of “The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics,” (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Glied is a member of the Board of Directors of Geisinger, the Milbank Fund, and the Social Science Research Council.  She is a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.