Abigail Batchelder, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Abigail Batchelder, PhD, MPH is a clinical health psychologist with a background in public health. She has recently transitioned to Boston University Medical School where she directs a new Behavioral Health Equity Program and serves as the Associate Vice Chair of Psychology. Across her time in Boston, Dr. Batchelder has been an Affiliated Investigator at Fenway Health Community Health Center. Dr. Batchelder has over 80 publications and her research has been funded by the NIH, SAMHSA, Harvard, UCSF, private foundations, and industry; she has been awarded 14 unique grants as principal investigator, including an active NIDA funded R01 and R34. Dr. Batchelder’s research aims to collaboratively identify, adapt, and implement evidence-based interventions with and for underserved people with unmet psycho-behavioral health needs, including people with and vulnerable to HIV, people who use drugs, and sexual and gender minority people with a goal of increasing behavioral health equity.

Publications

  • Published 10/28/2025

    Bondarchuk C, Cronin A, Kwetana S, Kumar P, Auger C, Batchelder A, Mayer KH. Correction: Barriers to and Facilitators of Heterosexual Men's Engagement with the PrEP Care Continuum in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review. AIDS Behav. 2025 Oct 28. PMID: 41148412.

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  • Published 10/17/2025

    Pericot-Valverde I, Lopes SS, Obeysekare J, Batchelder AW, Groome M, Taylor LE, Page K, Tsui JI, Lum PJ, Mehta SH, Feinberg J, Kim AY, Norton BL, Arnsten J, Baker A, Heo M, Litwin AH. Depression profiles and hepatitis C treatment outcomes among people who inject drugs: The HERO study. J Psychosom Res. 2025 Oct 17; 199:112417. PMID: 41124945.

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  • Published 8/22/2025

    Pericot-Valverde I, Nahvi S, Heo M, Gaalema DE, Thrasher JF, Batchelder AW, Litwin AH. E-Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation in Patients With Opioid Use Disorders: From Charybdis to Scylla?-Authors Reply. Nicotine Tob Res. 2025 Aug 22; 27(9):1669-1670. PMID: 40163717.

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  • Published 8/19/2025

    Sullivan MC, Davis MJ, O'Cleirigh C, Batchelder AW. PrEP Use Likelihood Among People Who Use Opioid Drugs: Understanding Clinical Correlates Along the Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Cascade. AIDS Behav. 2025 Aug 19. PMID: 40826261.

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  • Published 8/14/2025

    Bondarchuk C, Cronin A, Kwetana S, Kumar P, Auger C, Batchelder A, Mayer KH. Barriers to and Facilitators of Heterosexual Men's Engagement with the PrEP Care Continuum in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review. AIDS Behav. 2025 Aug 14. PMID: 40810877.

    Read at: PubMed

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Other Positions

  • Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
    Boston University School of Public Health

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Education

  • Yeshiva University, PhD
  • Yeshiva University, MA
  • Columbia University, MPH
  • Barnard College, BA

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