About the Commission
The Commission will provide ongoing strategic recommendations to transform the health care system in New York State, with a goal of ensuring that the limited resources of the State and other health care payers are optimized to enable the delivery of accessible, equitable, high-quality care for all New Yorkers, through a resilient health care ecosystem and a strong health care workforce. It will be tasked with identifying strategies to ensure the long-term resilience of New York’s health care system.
The Commission will offer formal recommendations submitted annually. The Commission’s first recommendations will be due before the end of 2024 and will be released publicly. The Commission will focus on the full continuum of care, including physical and behavioral health, and recommendations will span policy, regulation, funding, and other strategies to drive long-term transformation within the health care system.
The Commission on the Future of Health Care will meet every other month, with written summaries of the meetings made publicly available. The Commission will provide opportunities for public input, and work with a Stakeholder Advisory Board to ensure collaboration across the entire health care system.
Commission Chair, Sherry Glied
In 2013, Sherry Glied was named Dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. From 1989-2013, she was Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She was Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management from 1998-2009. On June 22, 2010, Glied was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services, and served in that capacity from July 2010 through August 2012. She had previously served as Senior Economist for health care and labor market policy on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1992-1993, under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and participated in the Clinton Health Care Task Force.
Glied 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.
Commission Members
The Commission includes some of the foremost practitioners and policy experts in New York and nationally, with experience in health care delivery, insurance, long-term care, workforce, health equity, innovation, and beyond.
- Sherry Glied, Ph.D., Chair of Commission; Dean, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
- Toyin Ajayi, M.D., CEO and Co-Founder, Cityblock
- Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H., President, Commonwealth Fund
- Robert Connor, Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus; Former President, Summit Medical Group and CityMD
- Lloyd H. Dean, Chief Executive Emeritus, CommonSpirit Health
- Nancy-Ann DeParle, J.D., Co-founder and Managing Partner, Consonance Capital Partners; Former Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy to President Barack Obama
- Richard Frank, Ph.D., Director, Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy
- Brett Friedman, J.D., Health Care Partner, Ropes & Gray; Former Medicaid Director, New York State Department of Health
- Niyum Gandhi, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Mass General Brigham
- Tom Insel, M.D., Executive Chair, Vanna Health; Former Director, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Ann Kurth, Ph.D., President, New York Academy of Medicine; Former Dean, Yale School of Nursing
- Robert Megna, President, Rockefeller Institute of Government; Former Budget Director, New York State
- Pat Wang, J.D., CEO, Healthfirst
Commission Meetings
Meeting #1
November 2, 2023 Public Summary
Meeting #2
January 19, 2024 Public Summary
Meeting #3
March 25, 2024 Public Summary
Meeting #4
May 28, 2024 Public Summary
Meeting #5
July 12, 2024 Public Summary
Meeting #6
September 20, 2024 Public Summary
Meeting #7
November 15, 2024 Public Summary