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Sherry A. Glied

Professor of Health Policy and Management


Biography:
A faculty member since 1989, Sherry Glied, PhD, is a leading scholar on U.S. health policy reform and mental health care policy. She served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President Barack Obama from July 2010 through August 2012. Dr. Glied led the the School's Department of Health Policy and Management from 1998 to 2009(as division head and then chair)and has been on faculty since 1989. Earlier, she was 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. She has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and to the Board of AcademyHealth and has been a member of the Congressional Budget Office?s Panel of Health Advisers.

Dr. Glied?s book on health care reform, Chronic Condition, was published by Harvard University Press in January 1998. Her book 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. She is co-editor with Peter C. Smith, of The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics, which was published by the Oxford University Press in 2011.   View Faculty CV here (PDF).
Education & Training:

PhD, Harvard University, 1990

MA, University of Toronto, 1985

BA, Yale University, 1982

Affiliation(s):

Additional Affiliations:

  • Member, Institute of Medicine
  • Member, National Academy of Social Insurance
  • Member, Panel of Health Advisers, Congressional Budget Office (-2010)
  • Member, Board of Directors, AcademyHealth 2007-2010
Honors and Awards:
    • Reasearch!America's Eugene Garfield Economic Impact of Medical and Health Research Award, 2004
    • NBER Faculty Research Associate, 2000
    • RWJ Health Policy Investigator Award, 1996
    • Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize, Jacobs Institute for Women's Health, 2008
    • Chair, Academyhealth Annual Research Meeting, 2004
Selected Publications:
    Sherry Glied and Peter C. Smith "The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics" Oxford University Press USA  2011

    Miriam Laugesen and Sherry Glied "?Higher Fees Paid to US Physicians Drive Higher Spending for Physician Services Compared to Other Countries" Health Affairs 30 1647-1656 2011

    Glied S "Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails" Harvard University Press Cambridge, MA  1998

    Frank, R., Glied, S. "Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States since 1950" Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore, MD  2006

    Barbash, G., Glied, S. "New Technology and Health Care Costs ? The Case of Robot-Assisted Surgery " New England Journal of Medicine 363 701-704 2010

    Muennig, P., Glied, S. "What Changes In Survival Rates Tell Us About US Health Care" Health Affairs 2010

    Cohen, B., Larson, E., Stone, P., Neidell, M., Glied, S. "Factors Associated With Variation in Estimates of the Cost of Resistant Infections" Medical Care 48 767-775 2010

    Neidell, M., Herzog, K., Glied, S. "The Association Between Community Water Fluoridation and Adult Tooth Loss" American Journal of Public Health 100 1980-1985 2010

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