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Network of Health Professionals Combatting Human Trafficking- HEAL Trafficking
Monday, November 17, 2014
: 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Hanni Stoklosa, MD
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Emergency Medicine Department; Connors Center for Women's Health & Gender Biology; FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Aimee Grace, MD, MPH
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Pediatrics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD
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Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, nyc, NY
Sue Baldwin, MD, MPH
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Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
Kimberly Chang, MD
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Frank Kiang Medical Center, Asian Health Services, Oakland, CA
Nicole Littenberg, MD, MPH
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Pacific Survivor Center, Honolulu, HI
Health, Education, Advocacy, Linkages (HEAL) Trafficking is an independent, interdisciplinary network of health professionals working to combat human trafficking. In response to a health care system inadequately prepared to care for victims of human trafficking, HEAL was founded in October of 2013. Some of the challenges faced in working with adults and children who have been trafficked include: limited resources to meet the acute and long-term medical and mental health care needs of this population; social and economic barriers in accessing and continuing care; lack of trauma-informed care systems; decentralized and limited epidemiologic data on trafficking survivors in the U.S. and their health issues; and absent data and research into best practices and outcomes. HEAL Trafficking brings together physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, dentists, psychologists, counselors, public health workers, health educators, researchers, clinical social workers, administrators, and other health professionals who work with and advocate for survivors of human trafficking. Utilizing virtual meeting platforms, and web-based technologies, HEAL convenes topically oriented working groups in order to centralize and synergize existing work in the field, as well as generate new collaborative projects. Working groups include: Education and Training; Research; Health Systems Protocols; Direct Services; Prevention; Advocacy; Legal; Media and Technology; and International Linkages. Each of these working groups connect experts who had previously been working in isolation to work towards improved systems of care to better meet the needs of survivors. The network model is a simple, effective, and innovative approach to a complex problem.
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership
Advocacy for health and health education
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Describe the effectiveness and innovation of a network model for advancing a multidisciplinary strategic response to health and trafficking.
Keyword(s): Violence & Injury Prevention, Sexual Assault
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am an emergency medicine physician, and public health trained researcher. I am co-founder and steering committee member of HEAL Trafficking. I have led other national organizations, including the International Federation of Medical Students Associations-USA, and University Coalition for Global Health. I have conducted research on gender based violence and human trafficking in multiple international settings.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
