Career Brief
Robert A. Malson is an attorney and the president of the District of Columbia Hospital Association. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade and is chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Bioterrorism Task Force. US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson appointed him to the Secretary’s Advisory Council on Public Health Preparedness and he serves as a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute.

Mr. Malson has served as counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and associate director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff. He received a Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics, cum laude, from Howard University and his Juris Doctor from the Harvard Law School.