FINDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS
Published on September 14, 2023
Authors: Madeleine Walsh, Avni Varshneya, Esther Beauchemin, MPH, Lameya Rahman, Anna Beth Schick, Madeleine Goldberg, and Veronica Ades, MD, MPH
This article seeks to describe the effects and challenges of homelessness during pregnancy and better understand how structural violence contributes to adverse birth outcomes, is informed by professional experience and review of the available literature.
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Published on July 21, 2023 by ScienceDirect
Authors: Annum Sadana, Sasha Elisabeth Gérard, Ashley Tang, Lisa Pardee, Olivia Sher, Ali Foote, and Dr. Veronica Ades
The article examines the key aspects of the medical and legal perspectives on trauma, credibility, autobiographical memory, and medical evidence to better comprehend the role that medical professionals can play in writing medical affidavits for asylum applications.
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Published on July 1, 2022 by SAGE Journals, Public Health Reports.
Authors: Mathilde Hainaut, Katherine J. Thompson, Caryn J. Ha, Hayley L. Herzog, Timothy Roberts, and Dr. Veronica Ades
This article examines existing tools used to screen for or identify victims of human trafficking in health care settings and whether or not these tools have been validated.
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Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Complete Clinical Guide
Published March 2020 by Springer
Editor: Ades, Veronica
This book gives a comprehensive overview of clinical care for survivors of SGBV. The clinical focus of this book goes beyond emergency room and crisis intervention protocol described in other books and makes it an ideal guide for all general health practitioners treating this population.
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Caring for the long term health needs in women with a history of sexual trauma
Published on October 22nd, 2019 by the British Medical Journal
Authors: Dr. Veronica Ades, Dr. Judy Greene, Brian Goddard, and Savannah Pearson Ayala
This paper explains the need for providing trauma informed care to patients who are survivors of sexual trauma and how the EMPOWER Clinic model provides this level of care for patients during check-ups and routine gynecological exams.
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An Integrated, Trauma-Informed Care Model for Female Survivors of Sexual Violence: The Engage, Motivate, Protect, Organize, Self-Worth, Educate, Respect (EMPOWER) Clinic
Published in April 2019 by Obstetrics and Gynecology
Authors: Dr. Veronica Ades, Stephanie Wu, Emily Rabinowitz, Sonya Chemouni Bach, Brian Goddard, Savannah Pearson Ayala, and Dr. Judy Green
This article describes the Engage, Motivate, Protect, Organize, self-Worth, Educate, Respect (EMPOWER) Clinic for Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Violence located at Gouverneur Health in New York, New York, as a model for integrated gynecologic and psychiatric care of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Although patients with a history of sexual trauma often have critical health needs that persist long after the traumatic event, most existing services for survivors of sexual violence focus solely on the provision of acute care immediately after the violence has occurred.
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ACOG Committee Opinion No. 729: Importance of Social Determinants of Health and Cultural Awareness in the Delivery of Reproductive Health Care.
Published in June 2018 by Obstetrics and Gynecology
Authors: Ades, Veronica; Goddard, Brian; Pearson Ayala, Savannah; Chemouni Bach, Sonya; Wu, Stephanie X
This article offers an additional social determinant not mentioned in the Committee Opinion No. 729: a patient's sexual trauma history. This Committee Opinion represents an important integration of clinical care and public health. Recognizing trauma as a determinant is a vital step toward making trauma-informed care more accessible.
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Prioritizing Posttrafficking Care for Trafficked Individuals
Published in February 2018 by the American Journal of Public Health
Authors: Ades, Veronica; Wu, Stephanie; Rabinowitz, Emily; Chemouni Bach, Sonya
We read with great interest the article "Public Health Research Priorities to Address US Human Trafficking" by Rothman et al.[ 1] We applaud the five priorities that Rothman et al. put forth for preventing trafficking as well as for identifying trafficking victims, but we believe that the article missed an important gap in knowledge regarding care provision in the critical posttrafficking period.
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