Gillian Schauer
CANNRA
Gillian Schauer, PhD, MPH is the Executive Director of the Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA), a nonpartisan, nonprofit association of government agencies involved in cannabis and cannabinoid regulation across 44 states, the District of Columbia, two U.S. territories, Canada, and the Netherlands. Dr. Schauer served as a Senior Advisor during the founding of CANNRA, and was elected CANNRA's first Executive Director in 2021. Dr. Schauer has worked in public health and drug policy for nearly two decades, and has a decade of experience working with federal and state agencies on cannabis and cannabinoid policy, data monitoring, and research translation. Dr. Schauer founded and led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and CDC-Foundation funded Multi-State Collaborative for Cannabis and Public Health from 2014-2021 to foster learnings and cultivate best practices for public health across states with legal cannabis. Prior to working on cannabis policy, Dr. Schauer worked on tobacco control policy. She was the Senior Editor on the 2020 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking Cessation. Dr. Schauer is an affiliate researcher at the University of Washington and has more than 70 peer-reviewed research publications on cannabis and other substances. She has a PhD from Emory University, a Master of Public Health from University of Washington, and a Bachelors of Science from Northwestern University.
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