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Dr. Robert Anda
Co-Founder & Co-Principal Investigator of ACE Study
Dr. Robert Anda
Co-Founder & Co-Principal Investigator of ACE Study
Biography
Rob Anda lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Anda graduated from Rush Medical College in 1979 and received his Board Certification in Internal Medicine in 1982. During 1982-1984 he completed a Fellowship in Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin where he also received a Masters Degree (MS) in Epidemiology.
He spent 20 years conducting research as a medical officer in the U.S. Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. His research involved a variety of areas including disease surveillance, behavioral health, mental health and disease, cardiovascular disease, and childhood determinants of health.
He played the principal role in the design of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study and serves as its Co-Principal Investigator. Findings from the ACE Study have been presented at Congressional Briefings and numerous conferences around the world. The ACE Study is being replicated in numerous countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is now being used to assess the childhood origins of health and social problems in all 50 states.
He has more than 200 peer-reviewed and government publications such as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and book chapters. In addition, he has received numerous awards and recognition for scientific achievements. He and his work are highlighted in the documentary Resilience by Jamie Redford that was accepted to the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and is now being shown across the nation.
Dr. Anda now works in his role as Co-Founder of ACE Interface to deliver training materials at the state and community level about neurobiology, epigenetics, ACEs, resilience, and community capacity development.
His dream is to help create a trauma informed Nation.
Speaker Videos
Building Resilience
Study on ACES and How to Heal From Them
Speech Topics
Understanding ACEs: Building Self-Healing Communities
This presentation will include a review of how adversity gets embedded in neurodevelopment and affects the way our genome may be used and affected.
The public health and communitywide implications of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study will be reviewed and specific examples of how this science has shown how ACEs affect the goals and practices in human service systems (education, justice, health care) in community will be provided.
Self-Healing Communities use this science—and the understanding and compassion that flows from it-- as a platform to engage the creativity, minds and hearts of all people in community—that can lead healing at the individual level and to a culture of change. This change brings people who have been affected by ACEs and the systems that serve them together to bring hope, new meaning, and understanding that is necessary for moving beyond old ways of thinking about trauma, ACEs, and their related outcomes. These changes unlock the latent potential and creativity in communities that lead to new ways to interrupt the intergenerational cycle of ACEs and reduce exposure to ACEs for the generations to come.
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