Global Health Institute

Kathy Stolarz will reveal the prevalence of human trafficking in our own communities and how it intersects with health care settings. She will review the data and her personal experience to inform how to identify and provide resources to human trafficking victims. Importantly, Dr. Stolarz will analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted human trafficking, its identification, and resources.

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Kathy Stolarz, D.O., FAAFP, serves as the director of global health for MedStar Health-Georgetown University Graduate Medical Education (GME), managing roughly 20 international academic partnerships. She oversees the MedStar-Georgetown GME Global Health Equity Track, which shapes future physicians of all specialties into global health leaders. She currently serves as the Society of Teachers in Family Medicine representative to the World Family Doctor Organization. She teaches regularly on the local, national, and international levels, with a special focus on migrant health, and regularly completes forensic examinations for Physicians for Human Rights. She also serves as the associate program director for the MedStar-Georgetown Family Medicine Residency Program in Baltimore and is an assistant professor in family medicine at Georgetown University.