Bayla Ostrach, PhD
Voluntary Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Family Medicine

PhD, University of Connecticut
MA, Oregon State University
BA, University of Oregon



Bayla Ostrach, MA, PhD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, is a member of the core faculty and coordinator of the Service Learning Internship for the Master’s of Science program in Medical Anthropology & Cross-Cultural Practice. An Applied Medical Anthropologist by training who conducts research designed to result in changes in policy and practice, Dr. Ostrach is a Fellow of the Society of Family Planning and an invited member of the Scholars Strategy Network. She holds memberships in the American Anthropological Association and North American Catalan Society.

Dr. Ostrach’s research focuses on reproductive justice, publicly funded health systems, the ways that structural violence and marginalization contribute to disease interactions known as syndemics (Singer 2009), and the role of intersectional stigma and other forms of injustice in producing or exacerbating health inequality. She began working directly in the field of reproductive health and abortion care in 1999, and has since worked with and volunteered at multiple clinics in Oregon, Connecticut, and Catalunya.

Dr. Ostrach conducts ongoing fieldwork primarily in Catalunya. Her work focuses on publicly funded reproductive health care and popular engagement with the movement for Catalan independence, as it intersects with commitment to protecting health care for immigrants. She also works with patients and staff of health care facilities in the United States that provide abortion and other reproductive health services.

With Shir Lerman and Merrill Singer, she is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume on stigma-linked syndemics. She has co-authored multiple publications on syndemics, and has single-authored and co-authored publications on reproductive health care access and policy. Her forthcoming book, tentatively titled, Health Policy in (a) Crisis: Access to Publicly Funded Abortion in the Context of Austerity, is under contract with Routledge Press.

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Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences


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  1. Ostrach B, Hill L, Carpenter D, Pollini R. Addressing buprenorphine bottlenecks in the context of MAT Act implementation: A shared responsibility. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2023 May 04. PMID: 37149144
     
  2. Marley GT, Ostrach B, Carpenter D. North Carolina pharmacists' willingness to sell fentanyl test strips: a survey study. Harm Reduct J. 2023 Jan 24; 20(1):10. PMID: 36694186; PMCID: PMC9875410; DOI: 10.1186/s12954-023-00739-4;
     
  3. Major EG, Wilson CG, Carpenter DM, Harless JC, Marley GT, Ostrach B. Factors in rural community buprenorphine dispensing. Explor Res Clin Soc Pharm. 2023 Mar; 9:100204. PMID: 36703716; PMCID: PMC9871294; DOI: 10.1016/j.rcsop.2022.100204;
     
  4. Morrissey B, Hughes T, Ostrach B, Wilson L, Getty R, Combs TL, Bennett J, Carroll JJ. "They don't go by the law around here": law enforcement interactions after the legalization of syringe services programs in North Carolina. Harm Reduct J. 2022 Sep 27; 19(1):106. PMID: 36163255; PMCID: PMC9513969; DOI: 10.1186/s12954-022-00690-w;
     
  5. Harless JC, Hughes PM, Wilson C, Carpenter D, Ostrach B. Eligible Prescriber Experiences with Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Perceptions of Pharmacy Barriers to Buprenorphine. South Med J. 2022 Aug; 115(8):584-592. PMID: 35922043
     
  6. Carpenter DM, Zule WA, Hennessy CM, Evon DM, Hurt CB, Ostrach B. Factors associated with perceived ease of access to syringes in Appalachian North Carolina. J Rural Health. 2023 Jan; 39(1):212-222. PMID: 35819251; PMCID: PMC9772148; DOI: 10.1111/jrh.12698;
     
  7. Harless C, Lugo B, Ostrach B. Hepatitis C and HIV Screening, Testing, and Risk Perceptions among South-Central Appalachian County Health Department Staff. South Med J. 2022 Jul; 115(7):422-428. PMID: 35777748
     
  8. Cabello-De la Garza A, Harless C, Ostrach B, Fagan B. Increasing North Carolina's Workforce Capacity for Prescribing Buprenorphine Products. N C Med J. 2022 Jul-Aug; 83(4):288-293. PMID: 35817448
     
  9. Davis SA, Dryer R, Zule W, Ostrach B, Carpenter DM. A content review of buprenorphine training programs for pharmacists. Explor Res Clin Soc Pharm. 2022 Jun; 6:100154. PMID: 35813287; PMCID: PMC9256820; DOI: 10.1016/j.rcsop.2022.100154;
     
  10. Carpenter D, Lambert KV, Harless JC, Wilson CG, Davis SA, Zule WA, Ostrach B. North Carolina community pharmacists' buprenorphine dispensing practices and attitudes. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2022 Sep-Oct; 62(5):1606-1614. PMID: 35643625
     
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2015 Berger-Marks Foundation Edna Award for Social Justice: Finalist
2015 National Society of Collegiate Scholars: Distinguished Faculty Member
2013 University of Connecticut Medical Anthropology Forum Fund Dissertation Grant: First Recipient
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abortion access
applied anthropology
health inequality
health policy
publicly funded health care
reproductive health
reproductive justice
syndemics

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