International Women’s Forum Special Interest Group for Health Examines Global Approaches to Human Trafficking

Debra Caplan and Karen Feinstein speak during the IWF Special Interest Group for Health event

On March 29, the International Women's Forum (IWF) Special Interest Group for Health heard presentations from professionals around the world working to address human trafficking. Speakers included Sue Matthews, RN, MHScN, DPH, WHAMglobal Board member and CEO at The Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, CEO and co-founder of HEAL Trafficking and an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and Iris Stern Levi, an Israeli social activist focused on issues of women's and human rights and co-founder of the non-profit organization Her Academy. Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD and JHF Board Chair Debra L. Caplan, MPA formed the IWF Special Interest Group for Health in 2019, and the group has met several times a year since.