Alison Mears is an architect, Associate Professor of Architecture, Co-Founder and Director of the Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design in New York. She is co-Principal Investigator of the Healthy Affordable Materials Project (HAMP) , a multi-year grant funded by The JPB Foundation. Alison focuses her research on design strategies that disrupt the building supply chain to incorporate human health as criteria for evaluating building products and designing and constructing healthier buildings. Alison is currently a partner in her own architectural practice, Paci + Mears Architects PC .