Human Trafficking Guidebook Aims to Educate Healthcare Providers

December 19, 2014

(WAMC) – The Massachusetts Medical Society has published a guidebook for healthcare providers on how to identify, assess and respond to victims of human trafficking. The 44-page guidebook is the result of a three-year research collaboration between Massachusetts General Hospital and the state’s medical society. The senior author is Dr. Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos, medical director of Mass General’s Human Trafficking Initiative and chair of the medical society’s Committee on Violence Intervention and Prevention. She says healthcare providers are some of the only people who come in contact with and are able to provide help for victims.