Rosalind Susan Gibson (née Alexander; born 20 November 1940) is a New Zealand nutrition academic.
[1] Gibson was born Rosalind Susan Alexander in Corbridge, Northumberland, England, on 20 November 1940.
[3][4][5] Gibson completed a Bachelor of Science degree in human nutrition at the University of London in 1962.
[3][6] She then graduated Master of Science from the University of California, with a thesis titled The inter-relationship of vitamins B6 and E.[7] In 1979, she earned a PhD from the University of London, titled Use of hair as a biopsy material for the assessment of trace metal status in Canadian low birthweight infants.
She then returned to Britain, as a lecturer in nutrition at Trinity and All Saints College from 1968 to 1971 and then at the Polytechnic of North London between 1971 and 1978.