Professor Cathy Zimmerman is a behavioural and social scientist and leads research on migration, violence and health. She is a founding staff member of the Gender Violence & Health Centre at LSHTM. Professor Zimmerman's research focusses on human trafficking, exploitation and gender-based violence (see: http://same.lshtm.ac.uk/themes/violence-mobile-populations-and-health/). Cathy and her team have produced policy and service-focused evidence from multiple corners of the world, including  Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Ethiopia, the United Kingdom and multiple European countries. She has been recognised for the impact of her research on policies and services (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/research-action/impact-case-studies/health-trafficked-women and http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-events-and-publications/impact-case-studies/the-health-impact-of-human-trafficking/. Professor Zimmerman's current work focuses on child domestic workers under the MILLBY Research Programme on violence against women and girls in Southeast Asia. Professor Zimmerman's previous European studies generated the first data on the health risks and outcomes among trafficking survivors. Her team's Mekong multi-site research remains the largest study on human trafficking and health, to date. Professor Zimmerman and colleagues recently completed five-year intervention evaluation research: the DFID-funded Study on Work in Freedom Transnational (SWIFT) Evaluation of the International Labour Organization's "Work in Freedom" programme in South Asia (SWIFT: http://same.lshtm.ac.uk/projects-2/swift/). Previously, Professor Zimmerman, working with Kings College Institute of Psychiatry, produced evidence for England's Department of Health to help the National Health Service (NHS) respond to the health needs of people who are trafficked. She is the author of the World Health Organization's WHO Recommendations for Interviewing Trafficked Women, IOM and LSHTM's Caring for Trafficked Persons: Guidance for Health Providers and other 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.