About Team Relentless
Dr. Katherine Welch, an American Pediatrician, has been working in Asia since 2000. Through her experiences of working with various marginalized people in rural Thailand, and then China, Katherine developed an understanding about the dynamics of exploitation and how a health professional can play a specific and important role in working against it. The years of experience prepared her to launch Relentless in 2011. Dr. Welch travels globally as a medical and health consultant to organizations serving abused, trafficked, and exploited people. She also trains health care professionals around the world in how to leverage their skills to fight modern-day slavery.
Dr. Welch 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”. Currently she serves as the Medical Director for Global Health Promise and previously served as the Medical Advisor for Chab Dai Cambodia. In 2017 Katherine was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Science by the University of Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Star has listed Katherine as one of the 25 most influential Hoosiers.