Dr. Nicole Bush
University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
Nicole (Nicki) Bush, Ph.D., is the Lisa and John Pritzker Distinguished Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Health at UCSF, jointly appointed in the departments of Pediatrics and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and is the Division Chief of the Division of Developmental Medicine. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Center for the Developing Child and a leader in the NIH ECHO National Children’s Health Study Consortium.
A licensed clinical psychologist with postdoctoral training in stress biology, pediatrics, and epidemiology, Dr. Bush leverages her cross-field training to innovatively bridge disciplines. She is an international expert in social drivers of health and wellbeing, with deep expertise in early childhood trauma, resilience science, and the importance of community engagement and culturally responsive approaches. Dr. Bush’s presentation will draw from her research on early childhood adversity and evidence-based interventions that can reverse the biological and psychological impacts of trauma across the life course. Dr. Bush’s work aims to advance prevention efforts, identify protective factors, and discover how to promote resilience through supporting existing strengths, providing family- and community-level interventions, and shaping public policies to enable thriving across all communities, across generations.