Director: Brian Willis

Brian began researching the public health impact of child prostitution in 1990 at the same time he joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While at CDC, Brian worked on HIV/AIDS legislation and policies, TB, and immunizations. In 2002 he left CDC and began working on the public health impact of prostitution full-time and became the Health Advisor to ECPAT-USA. While continuing to working on child prostitution and sex trafficking, Brian has focused much of his attention on the impact of prostitution on mothers and their children since 2003.

Email: BWillis@taskforce.org
Phone (office): 503.243.5848
Phone (mobile): 503.381.0085

Medical Director: Katherine Welch, M.D.

Katherine has been based in Asia for the past several years. From 2000-2004 she was the Co-Medical Director of hospital in rural Thailand on the Burmese border and provided medical care for refugees, poor villagers, and other marginalized people in the area, many of whom had HIV/AIDS and TB. Her patients included women who had been prostituted and their children who were either with them or left behind. Katherine has been based in China since 2005 where she has been a medical consultant to organizations working with victims of trafficking, prostitution, orphans, and children with disabilities. She is currently a faculty member of the Liaoning International General Health Trainers Family Medicine training program in Shenyang, China, where she continues to serve prostituted and trafficked women, children with disabilities, orphans, urban and rural poor, while training Chinese doctors. Katherine is also a board member of Doctors at War, an organization that provides medical care to victims of human trafficking.

Email: KWelch@taskforce.org