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Rosemary Gibson

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Rosemary Gibson
​Rosemary Gibson is Senior Advisor at the Hastings Center and author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine which reveals the dramatic shift in where medicines are made and growing concerns about their quality. It highlights the centralization of the global supply of medicines in a single country and implications in the event of a global pandemic, natural disaster, or geopolitical event. 
 
Ms. Gibson testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in 2019 and the Senate Small Business Committee in March 2020 right before the government shutdown.  She has briefed leaders in government and industry on the national security risks and actions to mitigate the risks.
 
Earlier in her career, at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Rosemary architected its decade-long national strategy to bring palliative care into the nation’s hospitals. When the work began, a handful of hospitals had a palliative care program whereas today nearly 2,000 acute care hospitals reported a palliative care program. She worked with Bill Moyers on the PBS documentary, “On Our Own Terms.” She is recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
 
Ms. Gibson is recipient of the American Medical Writers Association Award for her outstanding contributions to the public’s interest in reporting on critical health care issues.
 
She serves on the MedStar Institute for Quality and Patient Safety Advisory Board in Washington, D.C.; was a board member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; and served on the ACGME CLER Evaluation Committee to advance patient safety in teaching hospitals and other clinical learning environments.

​For nearly a decade, she was editor of Perspectives at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine. She is board member of the Altarum Institute, a non-profit health systems research group in Ann Arbor.
 
Ms. Gibson has been quoted in the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Military Officer (published by the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), Epoch Times, Bloomberg, The Hill, Washington Times, U.S. News and World Report, Detroit News, Seattle Times, Des Moines Register, NBC.com, Deseret News, La Presse (Canada), Daily Mail (U.K.) Le Figaro (France), Respeckt (Czech Republic), Defense News, among others. She has appeared on CNN, Fox News, Fox Business News, Washington Journal (C-Span), Economic War Room, NKV (Taiwan), Channel Asia (Singapore), Dutch Public Television, NPR Innovation Hub, the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, among other media venues.

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