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.
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Judge AM. Uncharted Waters: Developing Mental Health Services for Survivors of Domestic Human Sex Trafficking. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2018 Sep/Oct; 26(5):287-297.
Abigail Judge, PhD is a clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry, an instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and the founder of MGH Connect. Her clinical work at MGH focuses on women affected by commercial sexual exploitation. She leads an outpatient psychotherapy clinic for this population and is currently piloting low threshold services for women with opioid use disorder experiencing sexual exploitation and sex trafficking at the MGH Substance Use Disorder Bridge Clinic.
