Alison Shippy currently works for the National Partnership for Women and Families and serves as Associate Director with the Consumer-Purchaser Alliance – a collaboration of leading consumer, employer and labor groups working together to promote the use of performance measurement in health care to inform consumer choice, value-based purchasing, and payment. Alison first worked in clinical research and hospital quality/patient safety for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and most recently worked for the American Academy of Dermatology on issues of performance measurement, patient safety, and public policy. Alison holds a MPH in health policy and management from Columbia University.