Sherry Glied

Research

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.

In 1992-1993, she served as a Senior Economist for health care and labor market policy to the President's Council of Economic Advisers, under President Bush and President Clinton. She was a participant in President Clinton's Health Care Task Force and headed working groups on global budgets and on the economic impacts of the health plan. In 1996-1997, 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 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 recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award through which she has been studying the U.S. employer-based health insurance system.

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.

Selected Work

• "Inside the Sausage Factory: Improving Estimates of the Effects of Health Insurance Expansion Proposals" Glied, Sherry, Dahlia Remler, and Joshua Graff Zivin. Milbank Quarterly, Forthcoming
• "What Every Public Finance Economist Needs to Know About Health Economics: Recent Advances and Unresolved Questions" Glied, Sherry and Dahlia Remler. National Tax Journal, Forthcoming
• "What Can the Take-up of Other Programs Teach Us About How to Improve Take-up of Health Insurance Programs?" Remler, Dahlia and Sherry A. Glied. NBER Working Paper 8185. American Journal of Public Health, 2002
• "Consequences and Correlates of Adolescent Depression" Glied, Sherry and Daniel S. Pine. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Forthcoming
• "How Do Doctors Behave When Some (But Not All) of Their Patients are in Managed Care?" Glied, Sherry and Joshua Graff Zivin. Journal of Health Economics, 21(2002): 337-353
• "Youth Tobacco Control: Reconciling Theory and Empirical Evidence" Glied, Sherry. Journal of Health Economics, 21(2002): 117-135
• "The Value of Reductions in Child Injury Mortality in the U.S." Glied, Sherry. In Medical Care Output and Productivity, (David M. Cutler and Ernst R. Berndt, eds.) University of Chicago Press, Chapter 13, pg. 511-538, 2001

See Also

• Featured publication: Better But Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States since 1950
• Newsletter article: Health Care Reform: Building From the States?