The University of Michigan Human Trafficking Collaborative includes members from a variety of disciplines conducting research on trauma-informed care; intimate partner violence; sexual violence; and human trafficking survivor, healthcare provider, and system needs. They utilize a variety of methods including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches with community involvement.
This research has helped inform the content, resources, and educational components of this website. To find out more information about the team’s research endeavors, please see below.
Trauma-informed education and care among healthcare providers is essential to prevent retraumatization. It also takes into consideration patient-centered communication and the trauma experienced in childhood, often referred to as adverse childhood experiences. Trauma-informed care and patient-centered care are important tools for service providers to use with patients who have experienced trauma including childhood trauma and human trafficking.
Munro-Kramer, M.L., Beck, D. C., Martin, K. E., Carr, B. (under review). Understanding human trafficking from the health system perspective: A facility survey in Michigan.
Coxen, J., Castro, V., Carr, B., Bredin, G., Guikema, S. (2021). COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on online sex advertising and sex trafficking.
Munro-Kramer, M., Beck, D., Choi, K., Singer, R., Gebhard, A., & Carr, B. (2020). Human Trafficking Victim’s Service Needs and Outcomes: An Analysis of Clinical Law Data
Journal of Human Trafficking
6(1), 95-108. doi:10.1080/23322705.2019.1574476
Choi, K. R., Beck, D. C., Khan, M. A., Bell, S. A., Beza, L., & Munro-Kramer, M. L. (2020). A qualitative needs assessment of human trafficking in Ethiopia: recommendations for a comprehensive, coordinated response.
International Journal for Equity in Health
19(1), 1-11. doi:10.1186/s12939-020-1154-4.
Accessible at https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-020-1154-4
Kuzma, E. K., Pardee, M., & Morgan, A. (2020). Implementing Patient-Centered Trauma-Informed Care for the Perinatal Nurse.
The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing
34(4), E23-E31.
Li, Y., Cannon, L. M., Coolidge, E. M., Darling-Fisher, C. S., Pardee, M., & Kuzma, E. K. (2019). Current state of trauma-informed education in the health sciences: Lessons for nursing.
Journal of Nursing Education
58(2), 93-101.
Rosemberg, M. A., Gultekin, L., & Pardee, M. (2018). High-ACE low wage workers: Occupational health nursing research and praxis through a trauma-informed lens.
Workplace Health & Safety
66(5), 233-240.
Pardee, M., Kuzma, E., Dahlem, C. H. G. Y., Boucher, N., & Darling‐Fisher, C. S. (2017). Current state of screening high‐ACE youth and emerging adults in primary care.
Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
29(12), 716-724.
Pardee, M., Kuzma, E., Dahlem, C. H. G. Y., Boucher, N., & Darling‐Fisher, C. S. (2017). Current state of screening high‐ACE youth and emerging adults in primary care.
Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
29(12), 716-724.
Pardee, M., Munro-Kramer, M. L., Bigelow, A., & Dahlem, G. (2016). Domestic minor sex trafficking: Missed clinical opportunities
Clinical Advisor.
Accessible at http://www.clinicaladvisor.com/features/domestic-minor-sex-trafficking-missed-clinical-opportunities/article/495972/
Beck, D. C., Choi, K. R., Munro-Kramer, M. L., & Lori, J. R. (2016). Human trafficking in Ethiopia: A scoping review to identify gaps in service delivery, research, and policy.
Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
18(5), 532-543. doi:10.1177/1524838016641670
Carr, B. (2012). When federal and state systems converge: foreign national human trafficking victims within juvenile and family courts.
Juvenile and Family Court Journal
63(1), 77-90.
Carr, B. (2011). Examining the reality of foreign national child victims of human trafficking in the United States.
Wash. UJL & Policy
37, 183.
Carr, B. A. (2011). Introduction to Special Symposium Feature: Successes and Failures in International Human Trafficking Law.
Much can be learned from screening practices, resource provision, and service delivery for intimate partner violence and sexual violence. Some of the research team’s work has focused specifically on these topics and in this website has considered how these principles can be applied to other forms of gender-based violence like human trafficking.