Samantha Truong, MD

Assistant Professor

 
Samantha Truong, MD, is an academic generalist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Medical Center (BMC), an assistant professor at BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, and affiliate faculty for the BU Center on Forced Displacement. She cares for patients at the BMC Immigrant and Refugee Health Center’s Refugee Women’s Health Clinic and at NeighborHealth, a Federally Qualified Health Center in East Boston. Her research and clinical work in global health equity centers on dismantling inequities in sexual and reproductive health, with a focus on migrant and reproductive justice, respectful maternity care and birth equity, language justice, and abortion navigation for newcomers and forcibly displaced individuals. She leads research and asylum medicine initiatives through the BMC Refugee Women’s Health Clinic. Since her Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship in 2018, she has collaborated locally and globally on research and capacity-building initiatives with Partners In Health, Compañeros En Salud in Chiapas, Mexico and with organizations at the US-Mexico Border. As a member of Physicians for Human Rights, she performs asylum evaluations for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.

Recent Publications

Fachon K, Narayan S, Truong S, Duzyj C, Kruczynski KV, Lalla AT, Cohen A, Barbosa P, Flynn A, Goodman A. “You feel like you come up short over and over again”: a qualitative study of provider perspectives of barriers to respectful maternity care in Boston. Reprod Health. 2025 Jun 11; 22(1):100. PMID: 40500749.

Patel SJ, Truong S, DeAndrade S, Jacober J, Medina M, Diouf K, Meadows A, Nour N, Schantz-Dunn J. Respectful Maternity Care in the United States-Characterizing Inequities Experienced by Birthing People. Matern Child Health J. 2024 Jul; 28(7):1133-1147. PMID: 38409453.

Truong S, Doughty K, Greenwald M, Goodman AK. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Mistreatment during Childbirth: Impact on Maternal Outcomes and Importance of Provider Perspectives. 2024; 14:227-233.

Truong S, Foley OW, Fallah P, Lalla AT, Osterbur Badhey M, Boatin AA, Mitchell CM, Bryant AS, Molina RL. Transcending Language Barriers in Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Critical Dimension for Health Equity. Obstet Gynecol. 2023 Oct 01; 142(4):809-817. PMID: 37678884.