Elizabeth Mitchell is President and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH), a nonprofit coalition representing nearly 40 private employers and public entities across the U.S. that collectively spend $350 billion annually purchasing health care services for more than 21 million Americans and their families.

As leader of PBGH, Mitchell advances the organization’s strategic focus areas of redesigning care delivery, driving affordability and optimizing health care markets, leveraging her extensive experience working with health care purchasers, providers, policymakers and payers to improve health care quality and cost.

Mitchell 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; as CEO of Maine’s business coalition on health (the Maine Health Management Coalition); within an integrated delivery system (MaineHealth); and was elected to the Maine State Legislature, serving as a state representative.

Mitchell served as Vice Chairperson of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee and was a board and executive committee member of the National Quality Forum (NQF). She was a 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.