Laurel Pickering, MPH

Lecturer, Jefferson College of Population Health

Healthcare Quality & Safety

Laurel Pickering is President & CEO of the Gateway Business Health Coalition (BHC) and its sister organization, the Midwest Health Initiative (MHI). The BHC represents leading employers, who provide health benefits to thousands of lives in Missouri and millions nationally. The mission of BHC is to support employer efforts to improve the well-being of their employees and enhance the quality and overall value of their investments in health benefits. MHI brings together those who provide, pay for, and use health care to share knowledge and develop regional solutions for the problems that challenge our health care system. As a nonprofit, regional health improvement collaborative, MHI is dedicated to generating data insights that support multi-stakeholder collaboration for higher quality, more affordable health care.

Before joining BHC, Laurel was Head, Strategic Alliances at Centivo and was Executive Vice President, Enterprise Solutions for Welldoc.

Laurel was the President & CEO of Northeast Business Group on Health (NEBGH) for over 20 years. There, she built an employer-led coalition of healthcare leaders and other stakeholders with the mission of empowering members to drive excellence and value in healthcare and the patient experience. Under Laurel’s leadership, NEBGH became one of the most active and influential healthcare-focused business coalitions in the country, dedicated to a value-based delivery system. 

Laurel joined the adjunct faculty of Jefferson's College of Population Health in 2021, bringing her years of experience in healthcare quality and market-based reform to her teaching.

Laurel serves on the Board of Directors of HealthPass and the Population Health Alliance. She is Co-Chair of the Advisory Council of the Center for Workplace Mental Health. Laurel received her BA in Anthropology from SUNY Albany and MPH from Emory University.