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At the Horizon Foundation, Dr. Schneider leads a skilled, strategic, and talented team of program and policy staff that works side by side with the community to improve public health outcomes and eliminate structural racism. For 14 years, he has overseen the Foundation’s overall strategic planning efforts, program planning, and policy work and has been a key advocacy campaign strategist working closely with community coalitions, grantees, and partners. These coalition-led initiatives are making an impact. Howard County Unsweetened reduced soda sales in Howard County, Maryland by 30 percent compared to a control community due to a multi-year policy, media, and outreach campaign. The County's Streets for All Coalition successfully advocated for nearly $65 million in complete streets improvements over the past 7 years with priority given to underinvested neighborhoods of color. And through determined advocacy with local partners, all 77 schools in the county began offering 1:1 mental health counseling to students during the school day greatly reducing barriers to care.  

Dr. Schneider was also a key leader in local efforts to make all Howard County public places smoke-free, pass the nation’s first board of health regulations prohibiting youth access to indoor tanning beds, and make healthy food and beverages more widely available. He's also helped secure millions of dollars in local public health investments and was a co-creator of the Healthy Howard Health Plan, a nationally acclaimed health care access program for the uninsured.

In his faculty role at the Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy, Dr. Schneider is the Director of the Public Health Advocacy Consensus Task Force (PH-ACT) and it's National Consensus on Advocacy Instruction. In this role, Glenn and the Lerner Center team are working with the de Beaumont Foundation, in collaboration with other national and state public health organizations to 1) Gain consensus on the definition of public health advocacy;  2) Identify the essential advocacy skills needed to operationalize it; and 3) Draft guidance that could help schools and programs. Learn more here.

Over the course of his career, Dr. Schneider has been a national consultant, executive director, community organizer, grassroots strategist and policy director in the government and nonprofit sectors. His work helped lead to more than 40 new state and local laws and regulations across the nation that increased access to health care, protected the public’s health, raised tobacco prices, created smoke-free public places, cut youth access to tobacco and helped secure millions of dollars in new local public health funding. 

Dr. Schneider is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer and his work is featured in the book The DeMarco Factor: Transforming Public Will into Political Power. Glenn earned his Doctor of Public Health Degree from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health and his Master of Public Health degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health where he was named a Distinguished Graduate in 2002. He and his wife, Janice, are the proud parents of two young men, Eric and Evan.