Robynn Battle is an Associate Research Scientist at PIRE’s Prevention Research Center. She completed her Ed.D. in Learning and Instruction at the University of San Francisco after conducting doctoral research on informal reasoning responses to cross-cultural situations in an urban medical setting. She has a Master’s of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley with an emphasis in the behavioral sciences. Dr. Battle also served as a pre-doctoral research fellow at the University of California San Francisco’ Center for AIDS Prevention Studies from 1992-1996.

Prior to coming to PRC, Dr. Battle spent years conducting evaluations for community level programs involving adolescent and adult health issues (e.g., pregnancy and HIV/AIDS prevention, smoking cessation, prostate cancer screenings, community mobilization), and programs working within the various communities. She was also the co-principal of CAMI Consulting, a research consulting group that provides strategic planning and evaluation services to non-profit and profit groups in the areas of public health, social justice and education. At PRC, Dr. Battle is currently working with Dr. Juliet Lee on the Social Meaning of Drugs for Asian American Youth project. In addition to her work at PRC, she also is an adjunct professor at Holy Names University in the Department of Education, teaching in the area of evaluation for educational programs.