Truth Initiative Names Harvard's Vaughan Rees Chief Research Officer
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Washington – October 05, 2026 -- Truth Initiative, the largest U.S. nonprofit focused on nicotine addiction prevention, has named Dr. Vaughan Rees as Chief Research Officer effective October 27, succeeding Dr. Barbara Schillo.
Harvard tobacco control director takes over Schroeder Institute research arm
Rees joins from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he has directed the Center for Global Tobacco Control since 2015 and served as Senior Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences. He will lead the Schroeder Institute, Truth Initiative's scientific enterprise, overseeing a research portfolio spanning tobacco and nicotine, addiction science, behavioral health, emerging nicotine products, cannabis and polysubstance use.