By Genoa Barrow, The Sacramento Observer, April 29, 2020
As a pediatrician, Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris has spent years trying to get African American families in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point area to see the long term benefits of addressing their mental health.
As California’s first Surgeon General, Dr. Burke-Harris is driving home the message on a larger scale. She’s done extensive research on adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress and getting to their root causes.
In speaking with The OBSERVER about her role during the coronavirus pandemic and the state’s response to it, Dr. Burke Harris also talked about mental wellbeing in the Black community, the need for culturally competent health providers and how providers must work to get past a mistrust many in the community have that acts as a barrier to seeking help.
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