Avik Chatterjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avik Chatterjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avik |
| FAMILY NAME | Chatterjee |
| SIGNATURE | CHATTERJEE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8437-6774 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A descriptive study of drug overdose epidemics, overdose prevention efforts, and opioid settlement fund distribution across six states
Exploring placemaking in Boston's low-threshold transitional housing locations
The co-occurring housing and opioid crises require innovative solutions. • Harm reduction housing offers low-barrier care to people who use drugs. • Residents use placemaking to legitimatize rights to permanent housing
If you don’t have a place to call home, how can you have good health for yourself and your children?” perceptions of housing screening among families who have experienced homelessness
Embracing anti-racism
In the United States, Black people face harsher health and social consequences of addiction compared to people who are not Black. These differential consequences are largely attributable to systemic racism. While addiction treatment may mitigate health disparities related to substance use, Black people also experience structural barriers and direct interpersonal racism which contribute to inequitable access and treatment outcomes. Improvements in…
Mobile addiction treatment and harm reduction services as tools to address health inequities
Opioid overdose deaths continue to increase in the US. Recent data show disproportionately high and increasing overdose death rates among Black, Latine, and Indigenous individuals, and people experiencing homelessness. Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) can be lifesaving; however, only a fraction of eligible individuals receive them. Our goal was to describe our experience promoting equitable MOUD access using a mobile delivery model. We …
Evaluating mobile harm reduction services for youth and young adults
The adolescent and young adult (AYA) population has experienced an increase in both emergency room visits and deaths related to substance use. However, AYA are less likely to engage in existing addiction treatment infrastructure. A youth-specific mobile harm reduction program has the potential to reduce substance-related morbidity and mortality including infections, overdose, and death. Launched in 2019, the Community Care in Reach AYA pilot prog…
Insurance Instability for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder in the Year After Diagnosis
This study found that nearly 1 in 3 individuals experience insurance transitions in the 12 months after OUD diagnosis. Insurance transitions may represent an important yet underrecognized factor in OUD treatment outcomes
Racism, not race
Health professions school applicant experiences of discrimination during interviews
BACKGROUND: Bias pervades every aspect of healthcare including admissions, perpetuating the lack of diversity in the healthcare workforce. Admissions interviews may be a time when applicants to health profession education programs experience discrimination. METHODS: Between January and June 2021 we invited US and Canadian applicants to health profession education programs to complete a survey including the Everyday Discrimination Scale, adapted t…
Awareness, Utilization, and Preferences of Harm Reduction Interventions among Street-Involved Young Adults in Boston
OBJECTIVES: This study explores knowledge and utilization of, barriers to, and preferences for harm reduction services among street-involved young adults (YA) in Boston, Massachusetts. METHODS: This cross-sectional survey of YA encountered between November and December 2019 by a longstanding outreach program for street-involved YA. We report descriptive statistics on participant-reported substance use, knowledge and utilization of harm reduction …
Equity in medical education
PURPOSE: Existing frameworks to address instances of microaggressions and discrimination in the clinical environment have largely been developed for faculty and resident physicians, creating a lack of resources for medical students. METHODS: We implemented a workshop to prepare pre-clinical medical/dental students to recognize and respond to microaggressions. Participants in three cohorts from 2018 to 2020 completed pre- and post-workshop surveys…
Placing Racial Equity at the Center of Substance Use Research
The Case for Health Reparations
The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on racially marginalized communities has again raised the issue of what justice in healthcare looks like. Indeed, it is impossible to analyze the meaning of the word justice in the medical context without first discussing the central role of racism in the American scientific and healthcare systems. In summary, we argue that physicians and scientists were the architects and imagination of the racial taxonomy…
Student-Led Efforts to Advance Anti-Racist Medical Education
Over the past decade, medical schools across the United States have increasingly dedicated resources to advancing racial and social justice, such as by supporting diversity and inclusion efforts and by incorporating social medicine into the traditional medical curricula. While these changes are promising, the academic medicine community must apply an anti-racist lens to every aspect of medical education to equip trainees to recognize and address …
The Family Team at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program
Since 1986, the Family Team at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program has implemented an integrated, inter-professional, team-based model of care to serve families experiencing homelessness. The Family Team employs key strategies delineated by the well-established Health Care for the Homeless model, which emphasizes the importance of outreach medicine and a case management “one-stop shop approach”. We include an account of a specific case wh…
Shelter-Based Opioid Treatment
First Page
Lessons Learned From a Partnership to Evaluate a School Food Program
CBPR can be useful for school-based research, but key process changes could increase its effectiveness
A Traffic-Light Label Intervention and Dietary Choices in College Cafeterias
Objectives. To examine whether traffic-light labeling and choice architecture interventions improved dietary choices among students at a northeastern US university. Methods. In 6 cafeterias at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we implemented a 7-week intervention including traffic-light labeling (red: least nutrient rich; yellow: nutrient neutral; green: most nutrient rich), choice architecture (how choices are presented to consume…
A Traffic-Light Label Intervention and Dietary Choices in College Cafeterias
Objectives. To examine whether traffic-light labeling and choice architecture interventions improved dietary choices among students at a northeastern US university. Methods. In 6 cafeterias at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we implemented a 7-week intervention including traffic-light labeling (red: least nutrient rich; yellow: nutrient neutral; green: most nutrient rich), choice architecture (how choices are presented to consume…
Placing Racial Equity at the Center of Substance Use Research
Lessons Learned From a Partnership to Evaluate a School Food Program
CBPR can be useful for school-based research, but key process changes could increase its effectiveness
Lessons Learned From a Partnership to Evaluate a School Food Program
CBPR can be useful for school-based research, but key process changes could increase its effectiveness
A Traffic-Light Label Intervention and Dietary Choices in College Cafeterias
Objectives. To examine whether traffic-light labeling and choice architecture interventions improved dietary choices among students at a northeastern US university. Methods. In 6 cafeterias at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we implemented a 7-week intervention including traffic-light labeling (red: least nutrient rich; yellow: nutrient neutral; green: most nutrient rich), choice architecture (how choices are presented to consume…
Shelter-Based Opioid Treatment
First Page
The Family Team at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program
Since 1986, the Family Team at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program has implemented an integrated, inter-professional, team-based model of care to serve families experiencing homelessness. The Family Team employs key strategies delineated by the well-established Health Care for the Homeless model, which emphasizes the importance of outreach medicine and a case management “one-stop shop approach”. We include an account of a specific case wh…
The Case for Health Reparations
The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on racially marginalized communities has again raised the issue of what justice in healthcare looks like. Indeed, it is impossible to analyze the meaning of the word justice in the medical context without first discussing the central role of racism in the American scientific and healthcare systems. In summary, we argue that physicians and scientists were the architects and imagination of the racial taxonomy…
Student-Led Efforts to Advance Anti-Racist Medical Education
Over the past decade, medical schools across the United States have increasingly dedicated resources to advancing racial and social justice, such as by supporting diversity and inclusion efforts and by incorporating social medicine into the traditional medical curricula. While these changes are promising, the academic medicine community must apply an anti-racist lens to every aspect of medical education to equip trainees to recognize and address …
Awareness, Utilization, and Preferences of Harm Reduction Interventions among Street-Involved Young Adults in Boston
OBJECTIVES: This study explores knowledge and utilization of, barriers to, and preferences for harm reduction services among street-involved young adults (YA) in Boston, Massachusetts. METHODS: This cross-sectional survey of YA encountered between November and December 2019 by a longstanding outreach program for street-involved YA. We report descriptive statistics on participant-reported substance use, knowledge and utilization of harm reduction …
Equity in medical education
PURPOSE: Existing frameworks to address instances of microaggressions and discrimination in the clinical environment have largely been developed for faculty and resident physicians, creating a lack of resources for medical students. METHODS: We implemented a workshop to prepare pre-clinical medical/dental students to recognize and respond to microaggressions. Participants in three cohorts from 2018 to 2020 completed pre- and post-workshop surveys…
Placing Racial Equity at the Center of Substance Use Research
Health professions school applicant experiences of discrimination during interviews
BACKGROUND: Bias pervades every aspect of healthcare including admissions, perpetuating the lack of diversity in the healthcare workforce. Admissions interviews may be a time when applicants to health profession education programs experience discrimination. METHODS: Between January and June 2021 we invited US and Canadian applicants to health profession education programs to complete a survey including the Everyday Discrimination Scale, adapted t…
Mobile addiction treatment and harm reduction services as tools to address health inequities
Opioid overdose deaths continue to increase in the US. Recent data show disproportionately high and increasing overdose death rates among Black, Latine, and Indigenous individuals, and people experiencing homelessness. Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) can be lifesaving; however, only a fraction of eligible individuals receive them. Our goal was to describe our experience promoting equitable MOUD access using a mobile delivery model. We …
Evaluating mobile harm reduction services for youth and young adults
The adolescent and young adult (AYA) population has experienced an increase in both emergency room visits and deaths related to substance use. However, AYA are less likely to engage in existing addiction treatment infrastructure. A youth-specific mobile harm reduction program has the potential to reduce substance-related morbidity and mortality including infections, overdose, and death. Launched in 2019, the Community Care in Reach AYA pilot prog…
Insurance Instability for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder in the Year After Diagnosis
This study found that nearly 1 in 3 individuals experience insurance transitions in the 12 months after OUD diagnosis. Insurance transitions may represent an important yet underrecognized factor in OUD treatment outcomes
Racism, not race
If you don’t have a place to call home, how can you have good health for yourself and your children?” perceptions of housing screening among families who have experienced homelessness
Embracing anti-racism
In the United States, Black people face harsher health and social consequences of addiction compared to people who are not Black. These differential consequences are largely attributable to systemic racism. While addiction treatment may mitigate health disparities related to substance use, Black people also experience structural barriers and direct interpersonal racism which contribute to inequitable access and treatment outcomes. Improvements in…
A descriptive study of drug overdose epidemics, overdose prevention efforts, and opioid settlement fund distribution across six states
Exploring placemaking in Boston's low-threshold transitional housing locations
The co-occurring housing and opioid crises require innovative solutions. • Harm reduction housing offers low-barrier care to people who use drugs. • Residents use placemaking to legitimatize rights to permanent housing
Medicine (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Family medicine (5 works)