Nadine Burke Harris (born October 5, 1975) is a Canadian-American pediatrician who was the Surgeon General of California between 2019 and 2022; she is the first person appointed to that position.

[3] Hailed as a pioneer in the treatment of toxic stress,[4] she is an advisory council member for the Clinton Foundation's "Too Small to Fail" campaign,[5] and the founder and former chief executive officer of the Center for Youth Wellness.

[13][14] In 2005, Burke Harris joined the California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) staff, where she was tasked with the goal of developing programs to end health disparities in San Francisco.

The multidisciplinary approach focuses on preventing and undoing the chemical, physiological and neurodevelopmental results of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

[19] In 2018, Burke Harris released her first book The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

[24] The Center for Youth Wellness (CYW) aims to improve child and adolescent health by targeting the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences.

"[25] More specifically, they target ACEs in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunter's Point neighborhood, a generally underserved area that had a poverty rate of 39% in 2010.

[26] The CYW identified that exposure to ACEs, along with high violence,[4] increases the likelihood for detrimental health outcomes in this neighborhood.