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Colleen Murphey, MPH, serves as the COO of the Health Plan of San Mateo (HPSM) and has spent the better part of two decades in operational leadership and strategic consulting roles within health care. Prior to HPSM, she was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and held entrepreneurial roles with early-stage to growth-stage health IT startups.
Colleen has broad oversight of a variety of health plan functions in her current role and is passionate about connecting people and ideas across disparate factions of the health care ecosystem. She brings a depth of expertise to value-based payment principles and implementation, as well as health IT and digital strategy. Colleen draws from her own lived experience navigating the safety net for her family and community in the work she does and is ardently focused on strengthening access to health care for everyone.
April 2026
