Nadine Burke Harris

CTL-E-6749 · Person · physician · 1975–present

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Nadine Burke Harris (born 1975) is a pediatrician who founded San Francisco's Center for Youth Wellness to treat childhood adversity as a medical condition, and in 2019 was appointed the first Surgeon General of California. Her ACEs Aware initiative made California the first state to train and pay providers to screen for adverse childhood experiences. Her book The Deepest Well (2018) carried the science of toxic stress to a general readership.

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Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Physician — pediatrician; Surgeon General of California · Photo: Photo: Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nadine_Burke_Harris_(38533845456).jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6749.

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• Wikipedia, 'Nadine Burke Harris' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Burke_Harris

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