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Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is founder and CEO of Center for Youth Wellness (CYW). She has earned international attention for her innovative approach to addressing adverse childhood experiences as a risk factor for adult disease such as heart disease and cancer. Her work has demonstrated that it’s time to reassess the relationship between poverty, child development, and health, and how the practical applications of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study can improve health outcomes. Dr. Burke Harris currently serves as an expert advisor on Governor Jerry Brown’s “Let’s Get Healthy California Task Force.” She also advises the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as a committee member for the AAP’s Medical Home for Children Exposed to Violence Committee. Her work was recently profiled in Paul Tough’s best-selling book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character hailed by NY Times columnist, David Brooks, as “essential.”

The goal of the Center for Youth Wellness is ambitious – to create a clinical model that recognizes and effectively treats toxic stress in children and to change the standard of pediatric practice in our nation. CYW works in close partnership with the CPMC Bayview Child Health Center where Dr. Burke Harris was the founding physician and where she maintains her clinical practice. Her areas of interest are in health disparities, child trauma, nutrition and asthma. Particularly, her focus is serving communities where issues of poverty and race present challenges to conventional healthcare and education.

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For speaking events please email centerforyouthwellness@gmail.com