Thomas Ferrao is a Project Officer at the Canadian Public Health Association and is currently working on a project entitled “A public health approach to cannabis (and other substances): Prevention, health promotion, surveillance and capacity building.” Specifically, Thomas is responsible for engaging stakeholders and key target audiences to identify metrics currently in use as well as identifying gaps in data collection at the local level. Thomas holds a graduate degree (MSc) from the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University.