Healthcare professionals may have contact with victims and potential victims of the crime of human trafficking. For this reason, they play an important role identifying eventual cases and providing care for victims in clinics, hospitals, health centers, among others. This course aims to improve the capabilities of healthcare professionals through information and practical tools.

This course updates topics associated with women in the migration cycle and the context and understanding of comprehensive actions to address them. The content illustrates different points of analysis, such as the need for gender-sensitive data, understanding risk factors of migrant women, impacts of COVID-19, and links between human mobility with environmental degradation and climate change from a gender perspective.

The course is based on IOM's Handbook on Protection and Assistance for Migrants Vulnerable to Violence, Exploitation, and Abuse. It aims to provide students with a common understanding of vulnerability as described in the Determinants of Vulnerability of Migrants Model (DVM) and proposes tools to better identify and respond to migrants' vulnerabilities.