Dr Cathy Zimmerman MA MSc PhD

Senior Lecturer in Gender Violence & Health

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• Gender Violence & Health
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• London
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Cathy Zimmerman is a founding staff member of the Gender Violence & Health Centre at LSHTM. She is a behavioural scientist lecturing on violence against women, migration and public health policy. She has conducted multi-country research on the health of trafficked women and adolescents, which generated the first-ever data on the health risks and outcomes associated with trafficking (www.lshtm.ac.uk/genderviolence). She is the author of the World Health Organization's WHO Recommendations for Interviewing Trafficked Women and international resource materials for law enforcement, service providers and health professionals. Dr. Zimmerman also worked in Cambodia from 1993 to 1998 where she established the first local non-governmental organization against domestic violence against women and children.

Affiliation

• Department of Global Health and Development

Teaching

Cathy is the Course Coordinator for LSHTM's Public Health Distance Learning Course. She lectures on violence against women, migration and health, research ethics and supervises MSc and PhD students.

Research

Cathy is a core member of the Gender Violence & Health Centre at LSHTM. She is currently leading a study on trafficking and exploitation in the Mekong. Previously, she led two multi-country studies on the health risks and consequences of women who have been trafficked in Europe and research on on Asylum-seeking Women, Violence and Health in Europe.

She is the author of the WHO Ethical and Safety Recommendations on Interviewing Trafficked Women and co-edited: Caring for Trafficked Persons: Guidance for Health Care Providers. These documents can be found at www.lshtm.ac.uk/genderviolence.

From 1993 to 1998, Cathy founded and managed a local non-governmental organisation in Cambodia and carried out primary research, both qualitative and quantitative studies and a legal analysis, on domestic violence. She worked with local projects in Cambodia on child abuse, and trafficking in women and children. From 2000-2002,

• Selected publications

• Migration and health: a framework for 21st century policy-making.

  Zimmerman, C. ; Kiss, L. ; Hossain, M. ;

  PLoS Med, 2011; 8(5):e1001034

• Human trafficking and health: a conceptual model to inform policy, intervention and research.

  Zimmerman, C. ; Hossain, M. ; Watts, C. ;

  Soc Sci Med, 2011; 73(2):327-35

• The Relationship of Trauma to Mental Disorders Among Trafficked and Sexually Exploited Girls and Women.

  Hossain, M.; Zimmerman, C.; Abas, M.; Light, M.; Watts, C.;

  Am J Public Health, 2010;

• Meeting the health needs of trafficked persons.

  Zimmerman, C.; Oram, S.; Borland, R.; Watts, C.;

  BMJ, 2009; 339:b3326

• The Health of Trafficked Women: A Survey of Women Entering Posttrafficking Services in Europe.

  Zimmerman, C.; Hossain, M.; Yun, K.; Gajdadziev, V.; Guzun, N.; Tchomarova, M.; Ciarrocchi, R.A.; Johansson, A.; Kefurtova, A.; Scodanibbio, S.; Motus, M.N.; Roche, B.; Morison, L.; Watts, C.;

  Am J Public Health, 2008; 98(1):55-9

• The Health of Persons Trafficked for Forced Labour

  Oram, S.; Zimmerman, C.

  IOM Global Eye on Human Trafficking , 2008; (4):4

• Risks and responsibilities: guidelines for interviewing trafficked women

  Zimmerman, C.; Watts, C.

  Lancet, 2004; 363(9408):565

• Violence against women: global scope and magnitude

  Watts, C.; Zimmerman, C.

  Lancet, 2002; 359(9313):1232-7

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