CASP AOAC 2022 Annual Meeting

Gillian L. Schauer, PhD, MPH, Executive Director, CANNRA

Gillian Schauer, PhD, MPH is the Executive Director of the Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA), a nonpartisan, non-profit 501(c)(4)organization that convenes government officials involved in cannabis regulation from more than 40 U.S. states and territories to share best practices and lessons learned to protect public health and consumer safety, advance equity, and harmonize policy where feasible. 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 policy, data monitoring, and research translation. Through work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she founded and led the 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 her work on cannabis issues, Dr. Schauer worked on tobacco prevention and control, with a focus on tobacco cessation and treatment. Dr. Schauer is also an affiliate Research Scientist with the Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute at the University of Washington. She has more than 70 peer-reviewed research publications on cannabis, tobacco, and other substances. She has a PhD in Behavioral Science from Emory University, a Master of Public Health from University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University.

Julia Bramante, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Julia Bramante is the Cannabis Reference Laboratory Manager and Lead Scientist at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, in which the lab’s primary focus is conducting in depth method development and validation studies for application to reference methods. Additionally, Julia is the Chair of the AOAC CASP Microbial Contaminants Working Group, Chair of the AOAC CASP Microbial Contaminants Expert Review Panel, and serves on the AOAC CASP Cannabinoids and Chemical Contaminants Expert Review Panels. She also serves as Chair of the Cannabis Chemistry Subdivision of the Division of Chemical Health and Safety of the American Chemical Society, a position

she has held since January of 2019.