{"id":33976,"date":"2013-11-04T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T02:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?page_id=33976"},"modified":"2023-10-26T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:51:57","slug":"bayla-ostrach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/maccp\/faculty\/bayla-ostrach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayla Ostrach, MA, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bayla Ostrach, MA, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Family Medicine Department at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; and Affiliated Faculty at Boston University\u2019s Department of Anthropology. Dr. Ostrach is also a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of North Carolina-Asheville, and a Research Scientist at UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC.<\/p>\n

They began working directly in the field of reproductive health and abortion care in 1999, and have since worked at and\/or conducted participatory fieldwork in at multiple clinics in Oregon, Connecticut, and Catalunya. From 2006 until 2010, and then periodically until its closure in 2012, Dr. Ostrach\u00a0worked at an independent clinic in Oregon that was one of few providers of full-spectrum and second-trimester care; a clinic where they conducted their original master\u2019s research<\/a> and\u00a0follow-up studies (Ostrach & Matthews 2015; Ostrach 2014).<\/p>\n

Since then, Dr. Ostrach\u2019s research explores reproductive justice; access to care in publicly funded health systems; the role of social and mutual support in people\u2019s ability to overcome obstacles; drug users’ structural health risks and healthcare experiences, including overdose, as a result of public and political policies, and syndemics:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Boston University Rhett Talks \u2013 Syndemics: An Interdisciplinary Concept in BioSocial Health (September 21, 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n

In March 2017,\u00a0The Lancet<\/em>\u00a0published a special issue on syndemics. Dr. Ostrach\u00a0co-authored the lead article. With Shir Lerman and Merrill Singer, they also co-edited the first\u00a0two volumes on stigma-linked syndemics \u2013Foundations of BioSocial Health: Stigma & Illness Interactions (<\/em>Eds. Shir Lerman, Bayla Ostrach, & Merrill Singer) and\u00a0Stigma Syndemics: New Directions in BioSocial Health (<\/em>Eds. Bayla Ostrach, Shir Lerman, & Merrill Singer, both published by Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield) in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Since 2016 Dr. Ostrach\u00a0also conducts ongoing\u00a0fieldwork in Catalunya with Castellers (human tower builders), to analyze this neighborhood-level Catalan practice as an example of\u00a0inclusive nationalism<\/em>, a response to austerity, and, increasingly, an embodied aspect of the independentist movement. With the\u00a0Castellers<\/em>, particularly in an immigrant neighborhood in Barcelona, Dr. Ostrach explores\u00a0themes of safety, mutual support, trust, injury prevention, and refugee\/migrant inclusion. Participants report they value the mutual social support established and maintained in neighborhood and village-based groups and visually demonstrated by constructing multi-story ‘castles,’ and that groups of\u00a0Castellers\u00a0<\/em>increasingly make concerted efforts to welcome immigrants and refugees, and to defend their neighbors’ safety under the Spanish coup imposed in 2017. (Catalunya: “Only the People Save the People.”<\/a> Against the Current<\/em>, January 2018)<\/p>\n

Dr. Ostrach\u00a0has\u00a0authored and co-authored publications on reproductive healthcare access and policy, the book\u00a0Health Policy in\u00a0a Time of\u00a0Crisis: Abortion,\u00a0Austerity, and Access<\/u><\/em>\u00a0(Routledge Press 2017), publications on syndemics, commentaries on harm reduction and overdose prevention<\/a>, and is now working on several manuscripts about people’s experiences with perinatal substance use treatment, and syringe access programs, in Southern Appalachia. Recent publications include\u00a0\u201cSocial Movements, Policy Change and Abortion Access in Catalunya\u201d<\/u>\u00a0in\u00a0Anthropology Now<\/em>\u00a0(September 2018), “I didn’t want to be on Suboxone at first\u2026”-Ambivalence in Perinatal Substance Use Treatment.”<\/a>\u00a0(July 2019), and “A colonial legacy of HIV\/AIDS, NTD, and STI super-syndemics: Eugenicist foreign aid and intertwined health burdens in Nigeria<\/a>” (with former students from a Directed Study on Syndemics of Colonization, taught through MACCP).<\/p>\n

ostrachb@bu.edu<\/u><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ostrach CV (11-2018)<\/a><\/p>\n

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