Abigail Judge, PhD Nationally Recognized for Her Work on Human Trafficking

Abigail Judge, PhD of the Department of Psychiatry was invited by the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), HEAL Trafficking, and the Department of Health and Human Services Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) to attend a national meeting to create guidelines for the safe and ethical implementation of ICD-10 human trafficking codes. Following this meeting, Dr. Judge was selected to chair a steering committee comprised of trafficking survivors to advise this project.

Also in 2020, Dr. Judge was invited by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Division to present on the intersections of substance use and sex trafficking at the AGO’s first statewide Human Trafficking Summit.