Kirsten Austad, MD MPH Hear my name
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Family Medicine

MD, Harvard Medical School
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
BS, University of Wisconsin Madison



Kirsten Austad MD MPH is a health equity focused implementation scientist and Co-Director of Boston University's Evans Center for Implementation & Improvement Science (CIIS). She possesses expertise in qualitative methods and novel mixed methods approaches. Her research focusing on advancing theory and methods within implementation science and improving delivery of evidence-based interventions to populations in the safety net setting with an emphasis on those with non-English language preference. As such she has experience conducting research in diverse multilingual settings and intervention adaptation. Her research is inspired by her clinical work as a hospitalist at BMC, by the six years she worked as Director of Women's Health programming for an NGO in Guatemala that service rural indigenous Maya communities, and by her broad training in Family Medicine.

Currently she is supported by a K23 from NIMHD to adapt a transitional care intervention for patients with NELP. She was also the PI of the TIDE pilot trial funded by BMC's Health Equity Accelerator, which tested a package of language-concordant discharge teaching tools for patients with NELP in a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT). As Co-Director of CIIS she provides mentorship to early career faculty completing the implementation science fellowship, participates in campus education on implementation science, and provides consults for others on campus looking to integrate implementation science into their research and practice.

Areas of expertise: implementation science, populations with limited English proficiency
Methods expertise: qualitative methods, rapid qual analysis, discrete choice experiments, intervention adaptation, cultural adaptation, clinical trials



Adapting an Evidence-Based Intervention to Improve the Hospital Discharge Process for Patients with Limited English Proficiency
09/23/2023 - 03/31/2028 (PI)
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities/NIH/DHHS


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Leverage telemedicine to improve evidence-based management of acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) across different healthcare settings and for patients of different racial/ ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, using a mixed methods approach and a multisite implementation strategy to identify patients appropriate for telehealth visits (THVs) for ARTIs, create appropriate materials for the THV in collaboration with providers and patients, and gauge implementation and effectiveness outcomes
06/01/2022 - 05/31/2026 (Co-Investigator)
PI: Mari-Lynn Drainoni, PhD, MEd
AHRQ
AHRQ R01HS1028814

Testing the impact of a packaged educational intervention delivered at the time of hospital discharge for patients with limited English proficiency
02/01/2023 - 02/28/2025 (PI)
Health Equity Accelerator


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  1. Austad K, Thai C, Zavatti A, Nguyen N, Bautista-Hurtado D, Kenney P, Lugo N, Lee JH, Lanney H, Xuan Z, Cordova-Ramos EG, Drainoni ML, Jack B. Tools to improve discharge equity: Protocol for the pilot TIDE trial. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2025 Feb; 43:101419.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39810841; PMCID: PMC11731754; DOI: 10.1016/j.conctc.2024.101419;
     
  2. Silver SR, Jones KC, Hook K, Crable EL, George ER, Serwint JR, Austad K, Walkey A, Drainoni ML. Defining the transition from new to normal: a qualitative investigation of the clinical change process. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Dec 18; 24(1):1592.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39695655; PMCID: PMC11653967; DOI: 10.1186/s12913-024-12034-4;
     
  3. Austad KE, Rao SR, Hibberd PL, Patel AB. Trends and determinants of the use of episiotomy in a prospective population-based registry from central India. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2024 Sep 12; 24(1):598.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39267006; PMCID: PMC11396254; DOI: 10.1186/s12884-024-06762-y;
     
  4. Cordova-Ramos EG, Kerr S, Kalluri NS, Ho T, Austad K, Drainoni ML, Parker MG. Communication Practices for Families With Languages Other Than English in US Neonatal Care Units. Hosp Pediatr. 2024 Sep 01; 14(9):e385-e390.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39143920
     
  5. Silver SR, Jones KC, Hook K, Crable EL, George ER, Serwint JR, Austad K, Walkey A, Drainoni ML. Defining the transition from new to normal: a qualitative investigation of the clinical change process. Res Sq. 2024 May 21.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38826210; PMCID: PMC11142356; DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4366064/v1;
     
  6. Fantasia KL, Austad K, Mohanty A, Long MT, Walkey A, Drainoni ML. Safety-Net Primary Care and Endocrinology Clinicians' Knowledge and Perspectives on Screening for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation. Endocr Pract. 2024 Mar; 30(3):270-277.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38184239
     
  7. Austad, K. & Jack, B. W. . Linguistic and Cultural Competence at Hospital Discharge . Journal of Healthcare Management Standards (JHMS). 2023; 1(3):1-6. View Publication
  8. Jack, B. W., Austad, K., Renfro, D. R., & Mitchell, S. Re-Engineering the Hospital Discharge to Improve the Transition From Hospital to Home: Overview and a Look to the Future. Journal of Healthcare Management Standards (JHMS). 2023; 1(3):1-17. View Publication
  9. Jones KC, Austad K, Silver S, Cordova-Ramos EG, Fantasia KL, Perez DC, Kremer K, Wilson S, Walkey A, Drainoni ML. Patient Perspectives of the Hospital Discharge Process: A Qualitative Study. J Patient Exp. 2023; 10:23743735231171564.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37151607; PMCID: PMC10159238; DOI: 10.1177/23743735231171564;
     
  10. Chary A, Hawkins J, Flood D, Martinez B, Colom M, Austad K. Medical students' experiences of compulsory rural service in Guatemala: a qualitative study. Rural Remote Health. 2022 May; 22(2):6582. PMID: 35617739
     
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2013 Massachusetts Medical Society Annual Scholar Program award winner
2013 Harvard Medical School: Presidential Scholars Public Service Award
2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison: Highest Honors Award, Dept of English
2007 College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison: F. Chandler Young Distinguished Senior Honors Award
2005 Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education
In addition to these self-described keywords below, a list of MeSH based concepts is available here.

implementation science
respectful maternity
hospital discharge
implementation strategies
intervention adaptation
transitions of care
women’s health
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Dowling 5
Boston MA 02118
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