Professional Experience
Ms. Gerber focuses on achieving the policy, incentive and infrastructure changes required to improve healthcare globally. Her work and experience spans six continents and includes a concentration in the Pacific Rim. Within the United States, Ms. Gerber is a leader in driving collaboration between the public and private sectors in the healthcare industry, particularly in the arena of health information technology. She is an experienced advocate, policy expert, coalition-builder and innovative communicator with a proven track record of achieving bipartisan legislative, regulatory and public policy change and identifying the funding and cooperation needed for better healthcare worldwide. Ms. Gerber’s key areas of expertise include domestic and international health institutions and policy, public health and informatics, electronic and personal health records, healthcare quality and technology legislation, incentivizing patient-centered healthcare, regional health information exchange and data privacy and security.
Prior to joining Manatt, Ms. Gerber served as the Vice President for International Programs and Public Policy at the eHealth Initiative (eHI) and Foundation for eHealth Initiative. There, she spearheaded education and advocacy efforts and managed donor relations and fundraising. Ms. Gerber was also responsible for directing the eHI Leadership in Global Health Technology (LIGHT) Initiative. This program facilitates multi-stakeholder dialogue and information-sharing across continents on the development of electronically enabled healthcare and public health tools.
Before her time at eHI, Ms. Gerber worked as an Account Director for Signova Health Affairs, where she developed health policy content and media strategy and outreach for MedUnite, a real-time transactional technology advanced by America’s largest health plans. She also served as Manager of Public Policy for the Washington Business Group on Health (WBGH), acting as a liaison between member companies, Congress and the Clinton Administration and as a government affairs advocate for Humana Inc.
Ms. Gerber has spoken around the globe and is recognized in both the national and international community as a foremost expert on healthcare innovation and policy. She has conducted global health forums in both Europe and Asia.
Education
The Johns Hopkins University, M.H.S./M.P.H., 1999.
American University, B.A., Political Science, 1993.
Memberships & Activities
Member, Pacific Health Summit, Health Information Technology and Policy Committee.
Honors & Awards
Named a “Globeshakers” Social Innovator (the Globalshakers program highlights transformation through technology, social enterprise and sustainable solutions), June 2006.
Publications
“Building Information Capacity for Better Health: US and Beyond,” eHealth India, June 2007.
“Legislative and Regulatory Considerations for HIT Worldwide,” National Bureau of Asian Research Center for Health and Aging, June 2006.
Speaking Engagements
Keynote Speaker, “International Summit on Health Information Exchange,” Japanese Health Information Technology Association – eHealth Initiative Conference, Tokyo, Japan, June 2007.
Contributor, “Supporting Better Health and System Transformation Through Health Information Technology in the Pacific Rim” Pacific Health Summit, Tokyo, Japan, June 2006.
Speaker, “Strategies for IT and Better Health: A Global Tour,” The George Washington University, Washington, DC, February 9, 2006.
Speaker, “Health Information Infrastructure: A Global Tour,” Physician’s Electronic Health Record Coalition, Washington, DC, January 23, 2006.
Panelist, “E.U. and U.S. initiatives to Integrate HIT into Existing Infrastructure: An Explorative Crosswalk,” Ripon Educational Fund’s 2nd Annual Fall Forum, Washington, DC, October 18, 2005.
Speaker, “Chronic Disease and HIT: U.S. and European Policy Comparisons and Opportunities for Collaboration,” European Telehealth Informatics Association Conference, Rome, Italy, October 10, 2005.
Speaker, “Establishing an American Health Information Infrastructure: Domestic Experience and Global Implications,” 8th Annual European Health Forum, Salzburg, Austria, October 5, 2005.
United States Delegate, European Commission eHealth Summit, Tromsø, Norway, May 23-24, 2005.
Speaker, “Facilitating Health Improvement through Health Information Technology Throughout the Globe,” International e-Health Seminar, Seoul, South Korea, December 13, 2004.
Speaker, “Employers and the New E-Health Frontier,” e-Healthcare World Conference, New York, NY, 2001.
Speaker, “Electronic Health Records: Federal Efforts to Incentivize Use,” General Electric’s User Conference, Portland, OR, 2001.
Speaker, “Health Care Privacy,” National Managed Health Care Congress, Atlanta, GA, 2001.
Speaker, “Native American Gaming and Health Care,” University of Omaha Gaming Conference, Omaha, NE, 1999.
