Author: PPHS at Keck School of Medicine of USC

Rachel Carmen Ceasar is an assistant professor of clinical population and public health sciences and a medical anthropologist. She leads the USC Maternal Cannabis Lab, where qualitative and quantitative research is conducted to document the historic and systematic inequities people face when they use cannabis during pregnancy. The goal in this work is to partner with maternal health providers, patients, and cannabis dispensaries to develop person-centered and harm reduction-based curriculum and education that supports–rather than criminalizes—parents. Learn more about this episode and others at pphs.usc.edu/podcast (http://pphs.usc.edu/podcast) Stay in the loop – subscribe (http://pphs.usc.edu/subscribe/) to the Preventive Dose newsletter for monthly…