Robin Strongin

SENIOR DIRECTOR, NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE

An accomplished public affairs expert with 40 years’ experience working in Washington, DC, Robin has worked with and for federal and state governments, regulatory agencies, the White House, Congress, think tanks, nonprofit organizations, corporations, start-ups, coalitions, and trade associations. She ran her own public relations agency for 10 years and created the award-winning Disruptive Women in Health Care blog. Robin was selected as a Presidential Management Intern and worked in the Office of Legislation and Policy in the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (now the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission) in addition to serving in the Office of Congressman James J. Florio (D-NJ). She was a policy analyst at George Washington University’s National Health Policy Forum and served on the following boards: the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (founded by Dr. Oliver Sacks); AcademyHealth’s Translation and Dissemination Institute Advisory Committee; and Physician-Parent Caregivers. Robin was a Contributor to The Hill newspaper and served as Strategic Advisor for the Foundation for Art and Healing, with a focus on the public health issues related to loneliness and social isolation. She was named to the National Alzheimer’s Scientific, Patient and Caregiver Advisory Council of the newly approved PCORI-funded Alzheimer’s & Dementia Patient/Caregiver-Powered Research Network (AD-PCPRN), and named a Woman of Impact in December 2015.

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