Dr. Suzanne Lischer, social scientist, received her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin). She has worked as a lecturer and project manager at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts–Social Work (HSLU) since 2008. She has been the head of the Competence Centre for Prevention and Health, Lucerne, Switzerland, since 2017. Her main teaching and research interests are harm reduction in gambling and public health with regard to addictive disorders. She leads the research project "The exclusion as a player protection measure”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Since 1 January 2020, she has been a member of the Extra-Parliamentary Commission for Questions on Addiction and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases (EKSN).