President & CEO, Purchaser Business Group on Health

As President and CEO, Elizabeth Mitchell supports the implementation of PBGH’s mission of high quality, affordable and equitable health care. Mitchell leads PBGH in mobilizing health care purchasers, elevating the role and impact of primary care, and creating functional health care markets to support high-quality affordable care, achieving measurable impacts.

Elizabeth leverages her extensive experience in working with health care purchasers, providers, policymakers and payers to improve health care quality and cost. She previously served as Senior Vice President for Healthcare and Community Health Transformation at Blue Shield of California, during which time she designed Blue Shield’s strategy for transforming practice, payment and community health. Mitchell also served as the President and CEO of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), a network of regional quality improvement and measurement organizations. She also served as CEO of Maine’s business coalition on health, worked within an integrated delivery system, and was elected to the Maine State Legislature, serving as a State Representative and Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee.

Elizabeth served as Vice Chairperson of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, Board and Executive Committee Member of the National Quality Forum (NQF), Member of the National Academy of Medicine’s “Vital Signs” Study Committee on core metrics and a Guiding Committee Member for the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network. She now serves as a Board Member of California’s Office of Healthcare Affordability.

Elizabeth holds a degree in religion from Reed College and studied social policy at the London School of Economics.