Hanni Stoklosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 91040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanni Stoklosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanni |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoklosa |
| SIGNATURE | STOKLOSA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5762-6309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Community-Based Transdisciplinary Vision for the Future of Human Trafficking Research
We present a 10-year vision for human trafficking research developed through a two-day workshop with 30 human trafficking experts from within and outside of academia. Led by the Human-centered Action Research to Disrupt Human Trafficking (HART) team, the workshop brought together researchers from diverse disciplines (social science, computational science, public policy, and healthcare) alongside lived experience experts, service providers, policy…
Recognizing Child Labor Trafficking as Child Abuse
The Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), enacted in January 2023, expanded U.S. child abuse law to explicitly recognize children subjected to labor trafficking as victims of child abuse. Despite this significant legal shift, awareness among healthcare professionals remains low, and state-level interpretation and implementation of child labor trafficking statutes vary widely. As a result, children experiencing…
Health-Related Referral Patterns Among Labor and Sex Trafficking Survivors in Los Angeles County, CA
Migrant workers’ access to medical service providers in Pennsylvania
Psychological perspectives on human trafficking
This book explores human trafficking through psychological frameworks and provides a comprehensive overview of the types and impacts of trafficking
Mandated Continuing Education Requirements for Health Care Professional State Licensure
It is well acknowledged that persons who have experienced human trafficking and persons at risk for victimization often present for health care services. It is also extensively documented in scientific literature that awareness of trafficking among clinical providers remains relatively low. Well-intentioned but poorly executed trainings spread misinformation, aid propulsion of stigma and bias, and often neglect to provide individualized and pract…
How Should Health Care Organizations Limit Roles of Human Trafficking in Their Labor and Supply Chains
There has been little attention given to roles played by human trafficking in health care organizations' supply chains. Hand sanitizers and gloves, for example, might be produced by forced labor, which tends to increase in prevalence during pandemics, mass violence, migration, or other global crises. This article considers the nature and scope of health care organizations' corporate and social responsibilities to procure products and personnel ju…
Health Care and Human Trafficking
Health professionals must be prepared to assist patients who may be experiencing human trafficking. The Joint Commission, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Emergency Physicians, and other organizations have made statements on the importance of education and procedures in health care settings. This Brief Report describes a U.S.-based health system's process in developing such a policy and procedure with suppo…
Labor trafficking in marijuana production
Labor trafficking in marijuana production remains a concealed epidemic within the expanding cannabis industry. This abstract brings attention to the systemic exploitation of vulnerable individuals engaged in cultivating, harvesting, and processing cannabis. It explores the factors contributing to labor trafficking, including demand for cheap labor, inadequate regulation, and the vulnerability of the workforce. By compiling published cases, both i…
Toward an Evidence-Based Framework to Guide Health Care Responses for Patients Impacted by Human Trafficking
Trafficked persons seek health care during exploitation, but few health professionals know how to respond appropriately, and few institutions have protocols to guide this response. Currently, no empirically tested framework exists to guide protocol development for human trafficking response protocols in health care settings. Our aim was to empirically evaluate the HEAL Trafficking Protocol Toolkit’s usability and effectiveness through cross-secti…
Human trafficking and the growing malady of disinformation
Disinformation has endangered the most vulnerable communities within our world. The anti-trafficking movement in particular has been adversely impacted by disinformation tactics advanced through the QAnon campaign. QAnon's extremist messaging exacerbates gendered, racist, and xenophobic manifestations of trafficking victimization as well as problematic responses to trafficking that underpin historic structural inequities built into the United Sta…
Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is a global health problem, affecting the health of men, women, and children, and disproportionately affecting marginalized populations. At some point during their exploitation, those who experience trafficking will likely have contact with a health professional. 1 Unfortunately, many trafficking survivors report that contact with health professionals did not lead to safety and healing: their exploitation was not identified, the…
“Because the resources aren’t there, then we fail. We fail as a society”
Mitigating trafficking of migrants and children through disaster risk reduction
Thailand's flood of 2011 was devastating for the communities and inhabitants of the country, affecting approximately 13 million people and causing damages totaling THB 1.43 trillion (46.5 billion USD). The presence of a natural hazards disaster such as this can magnify individuals' vulnerability to human trafficking, or mitigate it depending on the disaster risk reduction practices of the surrounding community. The Sendai Framework is the United …
Pushing for the same thing on the same set of tracks
In mitigating these barriers and increasing survivor autonomy, anti-trafficking interventions have the opportunity to create individualized environments for those with an experience of trafficking to thrive. Ultimately, elevating community accountability, honoring individual autonomy, and recognizing the value of the persons with a lived experience of trafficking are critical as we continue to use a public health lens in the fight against human t…
The Public Health Impact of Coronavirus Disease on Human Trafficking
The global pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 exacerbates major risk factors for global human trafficking. Social isolation of families and severe economic distress amplify the risk of interpersonal violence, unemployment and homelessness, as well as increased internet use by under-supervised children. Aggravating the situation are overwhelmed health systems, severe limitations in activities of social service organization…
Informing Human Trafficking Clinical Care Through Two Systematic Reviews on Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence
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…
Promoting Health Equity Through Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed care has emerged as an important model to address the pervasiveness of traumatic experiences across the life cycle and their association with significant adverse medical and psychiatric consequences. To achieve health equity, in which all people have the opportunity for health, it is crucial for physicians to become comfortable with a neurobiopsychosocial understanding of trauma and how to provide optimal trauma-informed care. Giv…
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…
Public Health Research Priorities to Address US Human Trafficking
Health Care Providers' Experience with a Protocol for the Identification, Treatment, and Referral of Human-Trafficking Victims
nThe healthcare setting is thought to be one of the most promising places to identify victims of\nhuman trafficking. The present study was designed to relay the experiences of a sample of 10 healthcare providers and hospital administrators who developed and have used a protocol to identify victims of human trafficking since February 2014. To our knowledge, the protocol was one of the first to be adopted by any healthcare system in the U.S. Three …
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…
Identifying Gaps in Human Trafficking Mental Health Service Provision
Human trafficking is a global concern resulting in complex, long-lasting mental health consequences for survivors. The U.S. nongovernmental sector has emerged as a key service provider in facilitating and directly providing comprehensive services for survivors, including crucial mental health services. This study aimed to better understand barriers to and potential improvements for human trafficking survivor mental health service delivery by appl…
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…
Toward an Evidence-Based Framework to Guide Health Care Responses for Patients Impacted by Human Trafficking
Trafficked persons seek health care during exploitation, but few health professionals know how to respond appropriately, and few institutions have protocols to guide this response. Currently, no empirically tested framework exists to guide protocol development for human trafficking response protocols in health care settings. Our aim was to empirically evaluate the HEAL Trafficking Protocol Toolkit’s usability and effectiveness through cross-secti…
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…
Health Care and Human Trafficking
Health professionals must be prepared to assist patients who may be experiencing human trafficking. The Joint Commission, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Emergency Physicians, and other organizations have made statements on the importance of education and procedures in health care settings. This Brief Report describes a U.S.-based health system's process in developing such a policy and procedure with suppo…
Medical Education on Human Trafficking
Human trafficking occurs in all 50 US states and in at least 124 countries worldwide [1, 2]. The US Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 defines “severe forms of trafficking in persons” as
Causes of maternal and child mortality among Cambodian sex workers and their children
This is the first report of maternal deaths of sex workers in Cambodia or any other country. This modification of the sisterhood methodology has not been validated and did not allow us to calculate maternal mortality rates so the results are not generalizable, however these deaths may represent unrecognized maternal deaths in Cambodia. The results also indicate that children of sex workers in Cambodia are at risk of HIV and may not be accessing t…
Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue
A Review of U.S. Health Care Institution Protocols for the Identification and Treatment of Victims of Human Trafficking
The purpose of this study was to characterize and assess human-trafficking (HT) identification, treatment, and referral protocols of U.S. health care service provider institutions. A total of 30 protocols from 19 states and 2 national organizations were analyzed. Across the protocols, the most commonly listed indicator of HT victimization was patient history of physical- or sexual-abuse victimization, which was included in 73% of the protocols. I…
Human Trafficking, Mental Illness, and Addiction
This article reviews an emergency department-based clinical vignette of a trafficked patient with co-occurring pregnancy-related, mental health, and substance use disorder issues. The authors, including a survivor of human trafficking, draw on their backgrounds in addiction care, human trafficking, emergency medicine, and psychiatry to review the literature on relevant general health and mental health consequences of trafficking and propose an ap…
Training US health care professionals on human trafficking
AAP: American Academy of Pediatrics; ACF: Administration for Children and Families; CME: Continuing medical education; ED: Emergency department; HCP: Health care professional; HEAL: Health, Education, Advocacy, and Linkage; HHS: United States Department of Health and Human Services; HT: Human trafficking; IOM: United States Institute of Medicine; MH: Mental health; NHTRC: National Human Trafficking Resource Center; SOAR: Stop, Observe, Ask, and R…
Medical education and human trafficking
HCP: Healthcare professional; M-SIGHT: Medical student instruction in global human trafficking; SBME: Simulation-based medical education; SP: Standardized patient; TIC: Trauma-informed care
Public Health Research Priorities to Address US Human Trafficking
Health Care Providers' Experience with a Protocol for the Identification, Treatment, and Referral of Human-Trafficking Victims
nThe healthcare setting is thought to be one of the most promising places to identify victims of\nhuman trafficking. The present study was designed to relay the experiences of a sample of 10 healthcare providers and hospital administrators who developed and have used a protocol to identify victims of human trafficking since February 2014. To our knowledge, the protocol was one of the first to be adopted by any healthcare system in the U.S. Three …
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…
Identifying Gaps in Human Trafficking Mental Health Service Provision
Human trafficking is a global concern resulting in complex, long-lasting mental health consequences for survivors. The U.S. nongovernmental sector has emerged as a key service provider in facilitating and directly providing comprehensive services for survivors, including crucial mental health services. This study aimed to better understand barriers to and potential improvements for human trafficking survivor mental health service delivery by appl…
Human Trafficking and Hipaa
As health-care-professional awareness about human trafficking rises and clinicians recognize their role as first responders to human-trafficking victims, they are thrust into in a unique position at the intersection of health and law. Recent literature indicates that health-care providers have a role to play, but some are reluctant to become engaged. One reason may be a lack of clarity about matters related to patient privacy as delineated by the…
Promoting Health Equity Through Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed care has emerged as an important model to address the pervasiveness of traumatic experiences across the life cycle and their association with significant adverse medical and psychiatric consequences. To achieve health equity, in which all people have the opportunity for health, it is crucial for physicians to become comfortable with a neurobiopsychosocial understanding of trauma and how to provide optimal trauma-informed care. Giv…
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…
The Public Health Impact of Coronavirus Disease on Human Trafficking
The global pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 exacerbates major risk factors for global human trafficking. Social isolation of families and severe economic distress amplify the risk of interpersonal violence, unemployment and homelessness, as well as increased internet use by under-supervised children. Aggravating the situation are overwhelmed health systems, severe limitations in activities of social service organization…
Informing Human Trafficking Clinical Care Through Two Systematic Reviews on Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence
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…
Mitigating trafficking of migrants and children through disaster risk reduction
Thailand's flood of 2011 was devastating for the communities and inhabitants of the country, affecting approximately 13 million people and causing damages totaling THB 1.43 trillion (46.5 billion USD). The presence of a natural hazards disaster such as this can magnify individuals' vulnerability to human trafficking, or mitigate it depending on the disaster risk reduction practices of the surrounding community. The Sendai Framework is the United …
Pushing for the same thing on the same set of tracks
In mitigating these barriers and increasing survivor autonomy, anti-trafficking interventions have the opportunity to create individualized environments for those with an experience of trafficking to thrive. Ultimately, elevating community accountability, honoring individual autonomy, and recognizing the value of the persons with a lived experience of trafficking are critical as we continue to use a public health lens in the fight against human t…
Human trafficking and the growing malady of disinformation
Disinformation has endangered the most vulnerable communities within our world. The anti-trafficking movement in particular has been adversely impacted by disinformation tactics advanced through the QAnon campaign. QAnon's extremist messaging exacerbates gendered, racist, and xenophobic manifestations of trafficking victimization as well as problematic responses to trafficking that underpin historic structural inequities built into the United Sta…
Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is a global health problem, affecting the health of men, women, and children, and disproportionately affecting marginalized populations. At some point during their exploitation, those who experience trafficking will likely have contact with a health professional. 1 Unfortunately, many trafficking survivors report that contact with health professionals did not lead to safety and healing: their exploitation was not identified, the…
Medicine (29 works) · Sex work and related issues (29 works) · Political science (21 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Health care (18 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (17 works) · Nursing (16 works) · Human trafficking (14 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Environmental health (10 works)