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Abigail Winston Batchelder, PhD

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

(917) 940-1283
abatchel@bu.edu
Crosstown Center
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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.

Other Positions

  • Associate Professor, Psychiatry - Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Education

  • Yeshiva University, PhD Field of Study: Clinical/Counseling Psychology
  • Yeshiva University, MA Field of Study: Clinical/Counseling Psychology
  • Columbia University, MPH
  • Barnard College, BA Field of Study: Psychology

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Publications

  • Published on 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 on 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 on 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.

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  • Published on 7/14/2025

    Chiu C, Shin HJ, Baldwin HT, O'Cleirigh C, Mayer KH, Batchelder AW. Multiple Discrimination, Substance-Related Coping, and Depression Among Sexual Minority Men with HIV. J Homosex. 2025 Jul 14; 1-20. PMID: 40658755.

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  • Published on 5/29/2025

    Clement DN, Chiu C, Ruiz P, Batchelder AW. Current Status of HIV-Stigma Reduction Interventions: A Need to Address the Root Causes at Multiple Levels. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2025 May 29; 22(1):35. PMID: 40439805.

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  • Published on 4/22/2025

    Pericot-Valverde I, Heo M, Nahvi S, Barron J, Voss S, Ortiz EG, Gaalema D, Thrasher JF, Batchelder AW, Byrne KA, Kunkel D, Litwin AH. Effects of E-cigarettes on Combustible Cigarette Smoking Among Adults With Opioid Use Disorder on Buprenorphine: Single Arm ERASER Pilot Trial. Nicotine Tob Res. 2025 Apr 22; 27(5):856-863. PMID: 39484988.

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  • Published on 4/15/2025

    Brown LL, Batchelder AW, Gondré-Lewis MC, Willie TC, Chwastiak LA. Innovations to Address Unmet Behavioral Health Needs in National Ending the HIV Epidemic Priority Jurisdictions. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2025 Apr 15; 98(5S):e146-e155. PMID: 40163067.

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  • Published on 3/26/2025

    Grussing ED, Dershwitz SD, Asupoto O, Martin M, Beniers PJ, Batchelder AW, Wurcel AG. "How much more on the nurse?:" a qualitative analysis of inpatient nurses' perspectives on offering HIV testing. BMC Nurs. 2025 Mar 26; 24(1):327. PMID: 40140816.

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  • Published on 3/3/2025

    Shaw TJ, Cascalheira CJ, Helminen EC, Brisbin CD, Jackson SD, Simone M, Sullivan TP, Batchelder AW, Scheer JR. Yes stormtrooper, these are the droids you are looking for: Identifying and preliminarily evaluating bot and fraud detection strategies in online psychological research. Psychol Methods. 2025 Mar 03. PMID: 40029298.

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  • Published on 2/10/2025

    Scheer JR, Jackson SD, Cascalheira CJ, Behari K, Helminen EC, Batchelder AW, Sullivan TP. Daily minority stressors, threat appraisal, and identity concealment among trauma-exposed sexual minority women and transgender and gender-diverse people. J Couns Psychol. 2025 Apr; 72(3):211-222. PMID: 39928459.

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