Makini Chisolm-Straker
Biographic Data
| ID | 167888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Makini Chisolm-Straker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Makini |
| FAMILY NAME | Chisolm-Straker |
| SIGNATURE | CHISOLM-STRAKER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5182-5772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
This is Going to Get Worse”
The Historical Roots of Human Trafficking
A public health approach to human trafficking requires a nuanced understanding of its root causes. This textbook applies a historical lens to human trafficking from expert resources for the multidisciplinary A public health learner and worker. The book challenges the anti-trafficking paradigm to meaningfully understand historical legacies of present-day root-causes of human trafficking. This textbook focuses on history's utility in public health.…
A Framework for the Development of Healthcare Provider Education Programs on Human Trafficking Part Three
Human Trafficking (HT) also known as Trafficking in Persons (TIP) is increasingly recognized as a public health problem. This increased awareness has prompted healthcare providers (HCP), healthcare organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGO), and governmental entities to develop healthcare provider education programs and curricular content. While well-intentioned, some education programs lack an evidence-based, trauma-informed, survivor-i…
A Framework for the Development of Healthcare Provider Education Programs on Human Trafficking Part Two
Background Previous work indicates that clinicians are seeing patients while they are being trafficked and these patients often have negative healthcare experiences. Survivor-recommended solutions are essential to training healthcare provider (HCPs) to better care for this patient population.Objective This investigation explored what content survivors of human trafficking (HT) recommend be included in HCP trainings on HT. Additionally, this study…
A Framework for the Development of Healthcare Provider Education Programs on Human Trafficking Part One
Background Awareness of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) is increasing and healthcare providers (HCP) are seeing increased numbers of trafficked persons (TP) in healthcare settings. Yet HCPs report that they have insufficient training to adequately recognize, intervene, and appropriately refer TPs. Organizations have responded by creating HCP education on TIPs in varying degrees of length, quality, and content.Objective To obtain consensus on HT curr…
Screening for human trafficking among homeless young adults
Human trafficking is a public health issue affecting homeless young adults across the United States; however, screening tools for trafficking specifically for this population are lengthy and onerous. The aim of this study was to develop a sensitive, brief, and user-friendly trafficking screening tool for homeless young adults. Five candidate items for the screening tool were identified from the Vera Institute's Trafficking Victim Identification T…
A supportive adult may be the difference in homeless youth not being trafficked
To explore the factors that differentiate trafficked homeless youth from not-trafficked homeless youth
Rothman et al. Respond
Rothman et al. Respond
AffiliationsAll of the authors are with HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy, Linkage) Trafficking. Emily F. Rothman is also with Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Hanni Stoklosa is also with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Makini Chisolm-Straker is also with Icahn School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai, Brooklyn, NY. Rumi Kato Price is also with the Department of Psychiat…
Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue
Human Trafficking in Areas of Conflict
Given the significant global burden of human trafficking, the ability of clinicians to identify and provide treatment for trafficked persons is critical. Particularly in conflict settings, health care facilities often serve as the first and sometimes only point of contact for trafficked persons. As such, medical practitioners have a unique opportunity and an ethical imperative to intervene, even in nonclinical roles. With proper training, medical…
Public Health Research Priorities to Address US Human Trafficking
Implicit bias in US medicine
Purpose Implicit bias is the application of an unconscious attitude or belief; in the clinical setting, a provider’s perception of a patient, based upon perceived race or ethnicity, is hypothesized to affect clinical decisions, provider-patient interactions and patient health. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief synopsis of and critique the relevant works over the past 15 years while highlighting the strengths of this body of literatu…
Assessing the use of the neighborhood method to estimate the prevalence of child separation
This pilot showed that, for measuring separated children in North Kivu, the results from neighbor households significantly underestimated the prevalence of separation when compared to data collected from respondents directly. Reliability was mixed. Although the neighborhood method did not yield valid results in this setting, given the potential the method holds to save scarce resources in humanitarian settings, additional pilots to refine and eva…
Public Health Research Priorities to Address US Human Trafficking
Screening for human trafficking among homeless young adults
Human trafficking is a public health issue affecting homeless young adults across the United States; however, screening tools for trafficking specifically for this population are lengthy and onerous. The aim of this study was to develop a sensitive, brief, and user-friendly trafficking screening tool for homeless young adults. Five candidate items for the screening tool were identified from the Vera Institute's Trafficking Victim Identification T…
A supportive adult may be the difference in homeless youth not being trafficked
To explore the factors that differentiate trafficked homeless youth from not-trafficked homeless youth
A Framework for the Development of Healthcare Provider Education Programs on Human Trafficking Part One
Background Awareness of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) is increasing and healthcare providers (HCP) are seeing increased numbers of trafficked persons (TP) in healthcare settings. Yet HCPs report that they have insufficient training to adequately recognize, intervene, and appropriately refer TPs. Organizations have responded by creating HCP education on TIPs in varying degrees of length, quality, and content.Objective To obtain consensus on HT curr…
A Framework for the Development of Healthcare Provider Education Programs on Human Trafficking Part Two
Background Previous work indicates that clinicians are seeing patients while they are being trafficked and these patients often have negative healthcare experiences. Survivor-recommended solutions are essential to training healthcare provider (HCPs) to better care for this patient population.Objective This investigation explored what content survivors of human trafficking (HT) recommend be included in HCP trainings on HT. Additionally, this study…
A Framework for the Development of Healthcare Provider Education Programs on Human Trafficking Part Three
Human Trafficking (HT) also known as Trafficking in Persons (TIP) is increasingly recognized as a public health problem. This increased awareness has prompted healthcare providers (HCP), healthcare organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGO), and governmental entities to develop healthcare provider education programs and curricular content. While well-intentioned, some education programs lack an evidence-based, trauma-informed, survivor-i…
Implicit bias in US medicine
Purpose Implicit bias is the application of an unconscious attitude or belief; in the clinical setting, a provider’s perception of a patient, based upon perceived race or ethnicity, is hypothesized to affect clinical decisions, provider-patient interactions and patient health. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief synopsis of and critique the relevant works over the past 15 years while highlighting the strengths of this body of literatu…
Assessing the use of the neighborhood method to estimate the prevalence of child separation
This pilot showed that, for measuring separated children in North Kivu, the results from neighbor households significantly underestimated the prevalence of separation when compared to data collected from respondents directly. Reliability was mixed. Although the neighborhood method did not yield valid results in this setting, given the potential the method holds to save scarce resources in humanitarian settings, additional pilots to refine and eva…
Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue
Human Trafficking in Areas of Conflict
Given the significant global burden of human trafficking, the ability of clinicians to identify and provide treatment for trafficked persons is critical. Particularly in conflict settings, health care facilities often serve as the first and sometimes only point of contact for trafficked persons. As such, medical practitioners have a unique opportunity and an ethical imperative to intervene, even in nonclinical roles. With proper training, medical…
Public Health Research Priorities to Address US Human Trafficking
Implicit bias in US medicine
Purpose Implicit bias is the application of an unconscious attitude or belief; in the clinical setting, a provider’s perception of a patient, based upon perceived race or ethnicity, is hypothesized to affect clinical decisions, provider-patient interactions and patient health. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief synopsis of and critique the relevant works over the past 15 years while highlighting the strengths of this body of literatu…
A supportive adult may be the difference in homeless youth not being trafficked
To explore the factors that differentiate trafficked homeless youth from not-trafficked homeless youth
Rothman et al. Respond
Rothman et al. Respond
AffiliationsAll of the authors are with HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy, Linkage) Trafficking. Emily F. Rothman is also with Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Hanni Stoklosa is also with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Makini Chisolm-Straker is also with Icahn School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai, Brooklyn, NY. Rumi Kato Price is also with the Department of Psychiat…
Screening for human trafficking among homeless young adults
Human trafficking is a public health issue affecting homeless young adults across the United States; however, screening tools for trafficking specifically for this population are lengthy and onerous. The aim of this study was to develop a sensitive, brief, and user-friendly trafficking screening tool for homeless young adults. Five candidate items for the screening tool were identified from the Vera Institute's Trafficking Victim Identification T…
A Framework for the Development of Healthcare Provider Education Programs on Human Trafficking Part Three
Human Trafficking (HT) also known as Trafficking in Persons (TIP) is increasingly recognized as a public health problem. This increased awareness has prompted healthcare providers (HCP), healthcare organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGO), and governmental entities to develop healthcare provider education programs and curricular content. While well-intentioned, some education programs lack an evidence-based, trauma-informed, survivor-i…
A Framework for the Development of Healthcare Provider Education Programs on Human Trafficking Part Two
Background Previous work indicates that clinicians are seeing patients while they are being trafficked and these patients often have negative healthcare experiences. Survivor-recommended solutions are essential to training healthcare provider (HCPs) to better care for this patient population.Objective This investigation explored what content survivors of human trafficking (HT) recommend be included in HCP trainings on HT. Additionally, this study…
A Framework for the Development of Healthcare Provider Education Programs on Human Trafficking Part One
Background Awareness of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) is increasing and healthcare providers (HCP) are seeing increased numbers of trafficked persons (TP) in healthcare settings. Yet HCPs report that they have insufficient training to adequately recognize, intervene, and appropriately refer TPs. Organizations have responded by creating HCP education on TIPs in varying degrees of length, quality, and content.Objective To obtain consensus on HT curr…
The Historical Roots of Human Trafficking
A public health approach to human trafficking requires a nuanced understanding of its root causes. This textbook applies a historical lens to human trafficking from expert resources for the multidisciplinary A public health learner and worker. The book challenges the anti-trafficking paradigm to meaningfully understand historical legacies of present-day root-causes of human trafficking. This textbook focuses on history's utility in public health.…
This is Going to Get Worse”
Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sex work and related issues (8 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Human trafficking (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Political science (4 works)