Katherine Welch

Member Bio

Katherine, an American Board Certified Pediatrician, has served in Asia for 15 years and is currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In 2011 she founded RELENTLESS (www.gorelentless.org), an organization dedicated to serving at the intersection of health and justice. She travels globally as a health consultant to organizations serving abused, trafficked, and exploited people. She serves to support and develop more robust and holistic health care systems in preventive, outreach, and aftercare efforts through advocacy, service, and research.

Katherine has served as a member of the International Organization for Migration/UNGIFT expert panel on health which produced the document “Caring for Trafficked Persons, Guidance for Health Providers”. She serves on the CMDA Trafficking in Persons Task Force; and is also the Medical Advisor for Chab Dai Cambodia, the International Health Advisor for Abolition International; the Medical Director for Global Health Promise, as well as a board member of Doctors at War.

If you can't find her at any of these places, she is probably out for a run.