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Sherry A. Glied, Ph.D.
Sherry A. Glied, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Health Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Email: sag1@columbia.edu
Discipline: Economics
Expertise: Insurance

Managed Care

Mental Health

Investigator Award:
The Employer-Based Health Insurance System
Award Year: 1995

Within the framework of health policy and U.S. labor market changes, Dr. Glied takes a close look at employer-based health insurance, its strengths and weaknesses. She examines: how employer-based insurance systems operate and perform in response to changes in the health care market; increasing differentiation among health plans; an apparent reduction in the number of long-term jobs; and the shifting demographic composition of the U.S. labor force. She studies the ability of employer-based insurance to pool risk, reduce administrative costs, and encourage innovation as well as the impact of the employer-based system on job lock, labor market performance, and industry competitiveness. In addition to developing theoretical models, the project integrates the findings of existing studies in economics and health services research, conducts new analyses using a variety of secondary datasets, and studies noteworthy examples of employer-based systems. Piecing these elements together, findings identify the linkages among health policy, the economy, and the future of employer-based coverage.

Background:

Sherry Glied is professor and chair of 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.

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 past recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award, through which she has been studying the U.S. employer-based health insurance system. Dr. Glied's work in mental health policy has focused on the problems of women and children. She is a member of the MacArthur Foundation's Network on Mental Health Policy. She is co-author (with Richard Frank) of Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the US Since 1950, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Dr. Glied is a senior associate editor of Health Services Research; an associate editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law; a member of the editorial board of the Milbank Quarterly; and a member of the editorial committee of the Annual Review of Public Health.

Books:
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Frank, R.G., Glied, S.A., Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States since 1950. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Book Chapters:
Glied, S, Public Health and Economics: Externalities, Rivalries, Excludability, and Politics. In The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health, eds. Colgrove, J., Markowitz, G., Rosner, D. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 15-31, 2008.
Glied, S.A., The Employer-Based Health Insurance System: Mistake or Cornerstone?. In Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care, eds. Mechanic, D., Rogut, L., Colby, D., Knickman, J. Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Briffault, R.A., Glied, S., Federalism and the Future of Health Care Reform. In The Privatization of Health Care Reform: Legal and Regulatory Perspectives, ed. Bloche, M.G. Oxford University Press, Inc., 2002.
Selected Journal Articles:
Glied, S. Side Effects: A Dose of Competition and Access to Care, JHPPL, 2006, 31, 3, 643-670.
Feder, J., Nichols, L., Thorpe, K., Westmoreland, T., Glied, S., Bilheimer, L., Folz, C.E. Health Policy Roundtable - Policy by Numbers: The Role of Budget Estimates and Scoring in Health Care Reform, Health Services Research, 2005, 40, 2, 347-59.
Glied, S. A Health Bargain on the Job, LA Times, Oct 14 2003, B13.
Glied, S., Stabile, M. Avoiding Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Evidence from the Medicare as Secondary Payer Legislation, J of Health Economics, 2001, 20, 2, 239-60.
Glied, S., Stabile, M. Generation Vexed: Age-Cohort Differences in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage, Health Affairs, 2001, 20, 1, 184-91.
Glied, S.A. Challenges and Options for Increasing the Number of Americans with Health Insurance, Inquiry, 2001, 38, 2, 90-105.
Glied, S.A. Health Insurance and Market Failure since Arrow, JHPPL, 2001, 26, 5, 957-65.
Glied, S., Stabile, M. Explaining the Decline in Health Insurance Coverage among Young Men, Inquiry, 2000, 37, 3, 295-303.
Glied, S., Stabile, M. Covering Older Americans: Forecast for the Next Decade, Health Affairs, 1999, 18, 1, 208-13.