[2] On August 25, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Dr. Diana Ramos, MD as the current California Surgeon General.

A PBS NewsHour opinion piece highlighted Nadine Burke Harris experience with Toxic Stress and how it is under-diagnosed in children.

A substance that, in high doses, tripled the risk of heart disease and lung cancer and reduced life expectancy by 20 years.

Nadine Burke Harris, is a leading voice in a movement trying to transform our understanding of how the traumatic experiences that affect children, can trigger serious physical and mental illness, and looking at it using epidemiology, like John Snow did in 1800s London.

Decades of research that has found that children who endure sustained stresses in their day-to-day lives undergo biochemical changes to their brains and bodies that can dramatically increase their risk of developing serious health problems, including heart disease, lung cancer, asthma, and depression.

"[19] The Surgeon General of California was first created with the signing of Executive Order N-02-19[20]—one of the first acts taken by Governor Gavin Newsom on his first day in office—on January 7, 2019.