Sherry Glied

Dean and Professor of Public Service
NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Sherry Glied is Dean and Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Glied served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she oversaw a portfolio that spanned healthcare delivery, pharmaceuticals, health research, and human services policy, including assessments of evidence-based funding programs in home visiting and pregnancy prevention. She was Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s School of Public Health, and served as Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management. She has also served as Senior Economist for healthcare and labor market policy on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents George H. Bush and Clinton, and participated in the Clinton Health Care Task Force. Glied holds a BA from Yale, an MA from the University of Toronto, and a PhD from Harvard, all in economics.

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  • Surprisingly little is known about how housing policy and neighborhood features impact health. This project will examine several housing policies in New York City­ that may affect health, and develop a measure to understand the real-time impact of housing policy on health outcomes.

    December 1, 2015

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  • While transportation planning has not traditionally been linked to health, it affects health in various ways. This project will analyze policies around transportation-associated access to health care, develop a transportation-related project to reduce injuries and mortality, assess the affects that access to cycling has on health, and develop measures of transportation-sensitive health conditions.

    November 30, 2015

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