Dr. Battle-Fisher is an established scholar who uses systems thinking, complexity science and systems science in public health research.

Dr. Battle-Fisher is an Adjunct Faculty with Temple University, Center for Urban Bioethics in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine (PA) and Wright State. She is the Associate Director of Research for Equitas Health Institute. She has graduate degrees in Public Health and African American and African Studies. She has also completed advanced doctoral studies in Public Health as well as Health Communication. She holds a PhD in Systems Science at the University of Hull.

Dr. Battle-Fisher wrote Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy and Public Health Ethics: Public Health and Private Illness (Springer). The book was recognized as “essential medical knowledge” as 2016 Doody's Core Title in Health Policy, which is an honor bestowed on fewer than 2% of medical professional texts in print. She also co-edited (with E. Tumilty) Transhumanism- Entering an Era of Bodyhacking and Radical Human Modification (Springer).

She is a member of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science. Ms. Battle-Fisher was a Visiting Scholar at the Hastings Center. She was one of 45 competitively selected participants at the 2012 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institute on Systems Science and Health (ISSH). She gave a TEDxDartmouth talk in 2018 on the topic of health systems science in medical school curriculum. She was one of 7 finalists at the MIT Press Pitchfest. She was a MIT MLK Visiting Scholar Nominee. She was highlighted by the System Dynamics Society on International Women’s Day as a notable contributor to system dynamics and systems thinking.