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Vincent Felitti
Preventive medicine
Known for
Co-author of the original CDC–Kaiser Permanente ACE Study (1998)
Why their work may matter
The ACE Study reframed childhood adversity as a public-health question with measurable, population-level associations to later health.
Connection to a theme in The Trenches
Chapter 3 asks what story you might not know. ACE research is one reason that question is worth asking before you respond.
Start here
Read the 1998 paper's abstract, then CDC's plain-language ACEs overview.
Books
- The Hidden Epidemic: The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease (contributor)
Research / articles
Original sources
In the resource library
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults (The ACE Study) — Felitti, Anda et al. — American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1998
Listed as additional recommended reading. This is not a source for The Trenches, does not imply endorsement, and does not imply agreement with everything this person teaches.