Berkeley Franz
Education
- Sociology (PhD), University of Miami, 2014
- Religious Studies (MA), University of Chicago, 2009
Areas of Expertise
- Medical Sociology
- Health Disparities
- Racism and Health
- Addiction
- Opioid Use Disorder
- Religion and Health
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Berkeley Franz, Ph.D., is a medical sociologist and health services researcher whose research and teaching focus on health disparities, population health and substance use. Dr. Franz is Associate Professor of Community-based Health at the 红杏视频 Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Athens, 红杏视频 and Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Faculty Fellow in Behavioral Health. She received an M.A. in religious studies from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Miami.
Dr. Franz has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and books on community and population health, including hospital-based population health programs and their potential to increase access to services among underserved populations and for individuals with opioid use disorder. She also leads a productive research program on how continued racial resentment in the U.S. serves as a fundamental barrier to health equity and population health improvement. She currently leads two NIH/NIDA-funded studies focused on increasing access to opioid use disorder services in rural and urban underserved communities.
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Publications (Selected)
- Franz, Berkeley, James H. Ford II, Hannah Cheng, Helene Chokron Garneau, Kimberley Mount, and Mark P. McGovern. 鈥淢edication Approaches for Patients with Opioid Use Disorders: Differences between Primary Care Clinics and Specialty Addiction Treatment Programs.鈥 Journal of Addiction Medicine. In Press.
- Franz, Berkeley, Lindsay Y. Dhanani, Sean Bogart, Cheyenne Fenstemaker, William C. Miller, O. Trent Hall, Daniel Brook, and Vivian F. Go. 鈥淒ifferent Forms of Stigma and Rural Primary Care Professionals鈥 Willingness to Prescribe Buprenorphine.鈥 Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment.
- Fenstemaker, Cheyenne+, Elizabeth Abrams+, Katherine King+, Benjamin Obringer+, Daniel L. Brook+, Vivian Go, William C. Miller, Lindsay Y. Dhanani, and Berkeley Franz.* 2024. 鈥淭he Implementation Climate for Integrating Buprenorphine Prescribing into Rural Primary Care.鈥 Journal of General Internal Medicine. DOI: 10.1007/s11606-024-09260-1
- Chang, Ji E., Cory E. Cronin, Zoe Lindenfield+, Jose A. Pagan, Janet Simon, Berkeley Franz.* 2022. 鈥淭rends in the Prioritization and Implementation of Substance Use Programs by Nonprofit Hospitals: 2015-2021.鈥 Journal of Addiction Medicine. Published online ahead of print. doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000001128.
- Dhanani, Lindsay and Berkeley Franz. 2021. 鈥淲hy Public Health Framing Matters: An Experimental Study of COVID-19 Prejudice in the United States.鈥 Social Science & Medicine. 269 (January 2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113572.
- Franz, Berkeley, Lindsay Dhanani, and William C. Miller. 2020. 鈥淩ural/Urban Differences in Physician Bias toward Patients with Opioid Use Disorder.鈥 Psychiatric Services. 72(8): 874-879.