Abigail Trafford

Abigail Trafford is an author, journalist, and public speaker. She wrote the "My Time" column at the Washington Post and has been a commentator for Washington Post Radio and a syndicated columnist with Universal Press Syndicate. For fourteen years she was the Post's health editor and previously worked at U.S. News & World Report as a writer, senior editor, and assistant managing editor. She received journalism fellowships at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1982 and 2002 and was a...See more

Abigail Trafford is an author, journalist, and public speaker. She wrote the "My Time" column at the Washington Post and has been a commentator for Washington Post Radio and a syndicated columnist with Universal Press Syndicate. For fourteen years she was the Post's health editor and previously worked at U.S. News & World Report as a writer, senior editor, and assistant managing editor. She received journalism fellowships at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1982 and 2002 and was a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Longevity in 2007. See less