Abigail Batchelder

Abigail Batchelder is a Fenway Institute Affiliated Investigator. She is also a Clinical Psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant in Psychology at Harvard Medical School.

Abigail’s areas of expertise include understanding and reducing psychological barriers to HIV and other disease treatment among MSM and other high-risk populations; psychosocial underpinnings of substance use and medication non-adherence among adults living with HIV and Hepatitis C behavioral interventions and HIV adherence; and depression and HIV.

Education

• MPH, Sociomedical Science Research Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (2005 - 2008)
• Ph.D. Yeshiva University (2008 — 2013)
• BA Barnard College, Columbia University (1999 — 2003)
• University of Ghana (2002 — 2002)

Companies

• Assistant Director of Behavioral Medicine Program for Stigma and Substance Use Research Massachusetts General Hospital (2021)
• Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School & Psychologist, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital (2018)
• Assistant in Psychology and Staff Psychologist, MGH & Instructor, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital (2017)
• Clinical Research Fellow Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School & Fenway (2015 — 2017)
• Instructor UC Berkeley Extension (2014 — 2015)
• Postdoctoral Scholar UCSF (2014 — 2015)
• Clinical Psychology Fellow and Intern UCSF (2013 — 2014)
• Hepatitis C Project Director Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2012 — 2013)
• Psychology Extern Pathways to Housing (2012 — 2013)