Nadine Burke Harris’ healthcare practice focuses on a little-understood, yet very common factor in childhood that can profoundly impact adult-onset disease: trauma.
“We get to be part of shaping and creating our nation’s response to the single largest public health threat we are facing today.”— Nadine Burke Harris ABOUT NADINE Jamaican-American pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris innovatively studies adverse childhood experiences as a risk factor for adult di...
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the
Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime Feb 2015 00:11 In the mid-'90s, the CDC and Kaiser Permanente discovered an exposure that dramatically increased the risk for seven out of 10 of the leading causes of death in the United States. In high doses, it...
Nadine Burke Harris, an expert in toxic stress who in 2019 became California’s first-ever state surgeon general and, by extension, one of the most powerful public health officials in the country. She’s just what we need now: a Fauci for a post-vaccine America. We discussed the #1 ...