Human Trafficking Education and Training Academy
A two-day train-the-trainer workshop to develop skills for teaching health professionals about human trafficking.
Announcement regarding COVID-19 and its impact on this Continuing and Professional Development activity:
Although the current conditions keep us physically separate from each other, the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) team continues to plan this workshop with an eye toward safe and flexible learning experiences.
To limit the spread of COVID-19 in our community, the Academy will now be held virtually on the originally planned dates. We will create a dynamic experience with opportunities to engage directly with the faculty and fellow cohort members. We look forward to continuing our shared learning. Please visit event page for ongoing updates and contact CPD with any questions.
September 12-13, 2020 • Boston, MA
Co-sponsored by HEAL Trafficking
The majority of trafficking victims in the United States have contact with a health professional while being trafficked. Yet, most health professionals have never been educated about trafficking. To train millions of practicing clinicians and trainees in the United States, more trainers, with content knowledge on human trafficking and teaching skills, are needed. This academy will equip public health and healthcare educators with the content knowledge and teaching skills to train health professionals in their communities to respond to human trafficking.
Because Human Trafficking is a Public Health Issue
Final Pre-Enrollment Deadline: August 20, 2020Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH
Biology, Emergency Physician | Department of Emergency Medicine | Department of Medicine | Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Executive Director | HEAL Trafficking
Dr. Stoklosa, Executive Director of HEAL Trafficking, is an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital with appointments at Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Dr. Stoklosa is a well-recognized investigator, advocate, and speaker focusing on the public health of trafficking survivors in the US and internationally. She has advised the International Organization for Migration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, and National Academy of Medicine on issues of human trafficking and testified as an expert witness multiple times before the US Congress. Moreover, she has conducted research on trafficking and vulnerable populations in a diversity of settings including Australia, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Liberia, Nepal, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, South Sudan, Taiwan, and Thailand. Dr. Stoklosa published the first textbook addressing the public health response to trafficking, Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue A Paradigm Expansion in the United States.
Download a complimentary copy of an article co-authored by Dr. Stoklosa, "Training US health care professionals on human trafficking: where do we go from here?"
View a brief video featuring Dr. Stoklosa, "Caring for Victims of Trafficking: Identification."
View a brief video featuring Dr. Stoklosa, "Caring for Victims of Trafficking: Trauma-informed Care."
Rahel Bosson, MD
Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry (EXT), Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Bosson is a third-year psychiatry resident at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Residency Program at Harvard Medical School. Before moving to Boston to complete a second residency, she served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dr. Bosson was the former Medical Director of the Refugee Health Program (RHP) at the University of Louisville Global Health Center (GHC) where she began an integrated mental health program. As part of her role, she oversaw all medical activities within the GHC-RHP, including medical, psychiatric, social services, and community outreach for the different refugee/immigrant populations. Dr. Bosson is currently gratis faculty at the University of Louisville. She continues to maintain a practice and research focus on international healthcare, including refugee, immigrant, and undocumented populations.
Dr. Bosson has lived on three different continents and has presented both locally, nationally, and internationally on areas involving refugee health, human trafficking, and refugee population-specific interventions.