Hanni Stoklosa

Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, is the executive director of HEAL Trafficking and 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. She is the director of the Global Women's Health Fellowship at the Connors Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Stoklosa is an internationally recognized expert, advocate, researcher, and speaker on the well-being of trafficking survivors in the US and internationally through a public health lens. She has advised the United Nations, International Organization for Migration, US Department of Health and Human Services, US Department of Labor, US Department of State, and National Academy of Medicine on issues of human trafficking and has testified as an expert witness multiple times before the US Congress. Moreover, she has conducted research on trafficking and persons facing the most significant social, economic, and health challenges in a diversity of settings, including Australia, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Liberia, Nepal, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, South Sudan, Taiwan, and Thailand. Among other accolades, Dr. Stoklosa has most recently been honored with the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health Emerging Leader Award and the Harvard Medical School Dean's Faculty Community Service Award for her tireless efforts to advance the public health response to trafficking. Her antitrafficking work has been featured by the New York Times, Glamour, National Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, STAT News, and Marketplace. 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.