{"id":6088,"date":"2026-03-03T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/obgyn\/?page_id=6088"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:44:33","slug":"samantha-truong-md","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/obgyn\/samantha-truong-md\/","title":{"rendered":"
Samantha Truong, MD<\/center>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Title<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor
\nObstetrician-Gynecologist<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong>
\nMD, Harvard Medical School
\nBS, Duke University<\/p>\n

BUMC Profile\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 
\nSamantha 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\u2019s Refugee Women\u2019s 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\u2019s 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, Compa\u00f1eros 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.<\/p>\n

Recent Publications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fachon K, Narayan S, Truong S<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n

Patel SJ, Truong S<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n

Truong S<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n

Truong S<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor Title Assistant Professor Obstetrician-Gynecologist Education MD, Harvard Medical School BS, Duke University BUMC Profile\u00a0   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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25016,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/profiles.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6094,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6088\/revisions\/6094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}