Margaret Hayden

Dr. Margaret Hayden received her B.A. in Human Biology, completing a thesis in the Ethics in Society honors program. She received a Master of Philosophy degree in Medical Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2019, where she studied the stigma surrounding care of patients with addiction. She completed internal medical residency in the primary care track at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and worked as a primary care doctor at Upham’s Corner Health Center, a federally qualified health clinic. Prior to coming to UVA, she worked at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and helped them start a health clinic providing basic primary care and hepatitis C diagnosis and treatment for individuals leaving jails and prisons across the state. She also served as an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the University of Alabama Birmingham.

Research Interests

Health equity, social medicine, incarceration and health, substance use disorders, hepatitis c diagnosis and treatment

Select Recent Publications

Hayden M, Kishore S, Bradford D, Dedona M, Hunter M, Luck ME, Pratt R. Building a Low-Threshold Model for HCV Diagnosis and Treatment Among Formerly Incarcerated Patients in Alabama. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Feb 12. PMID: 39939496. Epub 2025 Feb 12

 Hayden M, Eisenstein LG, Kishore S. The Importance of Care for People Coming Home-Mass Incarceration and Human Frailty. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Jan 1;185(1):7-8. PMID: 39527052

Hayden M, Kishore S. Buprenorphine and the Boards: Missed Opportunities. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Jun;38(8):1984-1985. PMID: 36988866. Epub 2023 Mar 29

Kishore S, Hayden M. Community Health Centers and Covid-19 – Time for Congress to Act. N Engl J Med. 2020 Aug 20;383(8):e54. PMID: 32589372. Epub 2020 Jun 26

Hayden M, & Moore, A. (2020). Attitudes and Approaches Towards Repeat Valve Surgery in Recurrent Injection Drug-Use Associated Infective Endocarditis: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 14(3): 217-223

Bearnot B, Mitton JA, Hayden M, Park ER. Experiences of care among individuals with opioid use disorder-associated endocarditis and their healthcare providers: Results from a qualitative study. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2019 Jul;102:16-22. PMID: 31202284. Epub 2019 Apr 23

Kishore S, Hayden M, Rich J. Lessons from Scott County – Progress or Paralysis on Harm Reduction?. N Engl J Med. 2019 May 23;380(21):1988-1990. PMID: 31042821. Epub 2019 May 01

Hayden, M.C. & Brown, S.D. (2018). “I Sleep, But My Heart Is Awake”: Negotiating marginal states in life and death. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 61(1): 106-117