In our 10th podcast series, “Intersections in Health Care and Human Trafficking”, NAPNAP uses a multidisciplinary lens to explore the impact of human trafficking on children and adolescents. Human trafficking is a complex and pervasive issue which is best addressed by tapping into the skills and expertise across many disciplines and people. Forensics, police, legal, social work, research, and survivors of human trafficking all have a place in addressing human trafficking.
Our host for this series is Jason Spees, MSN, MaOM, APRN, L.Ac., FNP-C, Dipl. Ac. & C.H. Jason is a human trafficking educator and the chair of NAPNAP Partners Alliance for Children in Trafficking (ACT).
This week’s episode will explore the intersection of human trafficking and psychiatric care with our guests Dr. Rahel Bosson and Dr. Brett Murphy-Dawson.
Dr. Rahel Bosson is a psychiatrist, the medical director of McLean’s Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), associate program director of the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, associate director of the MGH Center of Immigrant Health, and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bosson received her BS in Nursing at Texas Tech University. She worked as a psychiatric nurse and critical care nurse in a cardiothoracic unit before going back to school to complete both her medical degree and internal medicine residency at the University of Louisville, KY.
Dr. Murphy-Dawson is a child psychiatrist working as the Education & Outreach Coordinator for Micah’s Promise and the assistant adjunct professor for Morehouse School of Medicine. Before serving in these roles, she worked as the medical director for New Horizons Behavioral Health (NHBH). Since retiring from NHBH, she is passionate about educating others on how to recognize and respond to the trauma of human trafficking, in particular the healthcare community. She attended Tulane University for college and medical school, and completed residency at Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic in Pittsburgh, PA where she served as the chief resident during her child psychiatry fellowship.