Ashley-Kay Fryer is research associate for The Commonwealth Fund Health System Scorecard and Research Project, a three-person research team based in Boston at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement with responsibilities for developing and producing national, state and sub-state regional analyses on health care system performance and related insurance and care system market structure analyses. Ms. Fryer provides research and writing support for the ongoing series of national and state scorecard reports and new health care market analyses and supports the work of the team. Ms. Fryer joined the Fund in June 2009 as the program assistant for Health Care Quality Improvement and Efficiency. Upon graduation from Harvard College in June, 2008, Ms. Fryer worked at J.P. Morgan Chase as an investment banking equity sales analyst. Ms. Fryer graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a BA in a self-designed major, "The Determinants of Population Health" and a minor in health policy.