Berkeley Franz, PhD
Associate Professor: Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, DO, Endowed Faculty Fellow in Population Health Science; Associate Director, Appalachian Institute to Advance Health Equity Science (ADVANCE)
Irvine 210, Athens Campus
Diabetes Institute
Social Medicine
Education:
- Sociology (PhD), University of Miami, 2014
- Religious Studies (MA), University of Chicago, 2009
Expertise:
- Medical Sociology
- Health Disparities
- Racism and Health
- Addiction, Opioid Use Disorder
- Religion and Health
- Health Services Research
- Health Policy
Summary of Work:
Trained as a medical sociologist, I currently lead two NIH-NIDA funded studies on access to evidence-based opioid use disorder services in underserved communities. I also manage the only nationally representative database of hospital community benefit programs and use these data to assess access disparities in the United States.
Links:
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