Abigail M Hatcher, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Health Behavior at the Gillings School of Global Public Health of University of North Carolina. She researches HIV prevention, care and treatment in the context of intimate partner violence, mental ill health, and poverty. Hatcher is also an honorary Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand, is an editorial board member of AIDS and an associate editor at BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.