Sherry A. Glied (born 1961) is a Canadian-American

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, currently serving as the Dean of

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

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. From 2010 to 2012, she served as Assistant Secretary at the

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under the Obama administration.

Early life and education

Glied was born and raised in

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. She earned a B.A. in economics from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, an M.A. in economics from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

, and a Ph.D. in economics from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

Career

From 1992 to 1993, Glied worked as a Senior Economist at the

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, where she specialized in healthcare and labor policy. Glied was also a member of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform, a committee established by the Clinton health care plan of 1993. Glied worked as a Professor of Health Policy and Management at

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Columbia University. Located on the Columbia University Medical Center campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, the school ...

, where she was chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management from 1998 to 2009. Glied also served as

Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is the principal advisory group to the United States Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on policy development and provides coordination and supp ...

from 2010 to 2012. Glied has written dozens of academic articles, a number of books, and is a frequent commentator in national media on health care.

Personal life

Glied married

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in 1993. Briffault is an attorney and legal scholar who holds a named professorship at Columbia Law School.

Significant works

* Barbash, Gabriel I., and Sherry A. Glied. "New technology and health care costs—the case of robot-assisted surgery." New England Journal of Medicine 363.8 (2010): 701-704. * Frank, Richard G., and Sherry A. Glied. Better but not well: Mental health policy in the United States since 1950. JHU Press, 2006. * Glied, Sherry, and Joshua Graff Zivin. "How do doctors behave when some (but not all) of their patients are in managed care?." Journal of Health Economics 21.2 (2002): 337-353.

References

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