Lauren Murray is the deputy director of Americans for Quality Health Care, a project of the National Partnership for Women & Families. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Americans for Quality Health Care promotes consumer involvement in the drive to improve health care quality and increase transparency. She has several years’ experience working in the area of health care quality and prior to joining the National Partnership, Murray worked at both the National Quality Forum and National Committee for Quality Health Care. As NQF’s director of member engagement, she was responsible for collaborating with its member leaders to meet the diverse needs of the organization’s multistakeholder groups, including consumers, community and public health organizations, employers, health professionals, health plans, and others. While there she devised a strategy to populate and ensure greater diversity on technical committees, developed a leadership orientation program, created a personalized member outreach campaign, managed development and implementation of educational offerings, and ran the National Quality Healthcare Award program. Murray received a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and is pursuing graduate studies in medical anthropology and public health, where she has researched the efficacy of multistakeholder health care collaborations and issues related to U.S. maternity care. She has been active with Childbirth Connection, a national not-for-profit organization working to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy; the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology; and the American Society of Association Executives.