Kirsten Austad

Kirsten Austad MD MPH is a hospitalist at Boston Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine. She is the Medical Director for the HealthNet Inpatient Family Medicine service. She completed a fellowship in global women’s health where she focused on improving delivery of reproductive health care in rural indigenous Maya communities of Guatemala. She is currently a fellow in the Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences at Boston University.

Her research seeks to use implementation science to promote health equity and improve patient experience in safety-net settings, including for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). Methodologically she is interested in intervention adaptation to reduce health disparities and facilitate linguistic and cultural concordance. Her current research focuses on improving the quality of hospital discharge care for patients with limited English proficiency.

Publications

• PUBLISHED ON 5/26/2022Chary A, Hawkins J, Flood D, Martinez B, Colom M, Austad K. Medical students’ experiences of compulsory rural service in Guatemala: a qualitative study. Rural Remote Health. 2022 May; 22(2):6582. PMID: 35617739.READ AT: PubMed

 

• PUBLISHED ON 8/2/2021Juarez M, Austad K, Rohloff P. Out-of-Pocket Costs for Facility-Based Obstetrical Care in Rural Guatemala. Ann Glob Health. 2021; 87(1):75. PMID: 34430225.READ AT: PubMed

 

• PUBLISHED ON 7/13/2021Perry MF, Coyote EI, Austad K, Rohloff P. Why women choose to to seek facility-level obstetrical care in rural Guatemala: A qualitative study. Midwifery. 2021 Dec; 103:103097. PMID: 34343832.READ AT: PubMed

 

• PUBLISHED ON 6/11/2021Austad K, Juarez M, Shryer H, Hibberd PL, Drainoni ML, Rohloff P, Chary A. Improving the experience of facility-based delivery for vulnerable women through obstetric care navigation: a qualitative evaluation. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2021 Jun 11; 21(1):425. PMID: 34116648.READ AT: PubMed

 

• PUBLISHED ON 6/11/2021Austad K, Barnett KG, Manasseh C. Family Medicine’s Critical Role in Building and Sustaining the Future of Hospital Medicine. Fam Med. 2021 07; 53(7):520-523. PMID: 34289497.READ AT: PubMed

 

• PUBLISHED ON 3/30/2020Nandi M, Moore J, Colom M, Quezada ADRG, Chary A, Austad K. Insights Into Provider Bias in Family Planning from a Novel Shared Decision Making Based Counseling Initiative in Rural, Indigenous Guatemala. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2020 03 30; 8(1):10-17. PMID: 32234840.READ AT: PubMed

 

• PUBLISHED ON 11/2/2019Austad K, Juarez M, Shryer H, Moratoya C, Rohloff P. Obstetric care navigation: results of a quality improvement project to provide accompaniment to women for facility-based maternity care in rural Guatemala. BMJ Qual Saf. 2020 02; 29(2):169-178. PMID: 31678958.READ AT: PubMed

 

• PUBLISHED ON 11/1/2019Sandy Mux Xocop Anita Chary Kirsten Austad. Social Medicine Consortium. Barriers to Care for Indigenous Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala. Harvard University. Cambridge MA. 2019.READ AT: Custom

 

• PUBLISHED ON 8/22/2019Flood D, Petersen A, Martinez B, Chary A, Austad K, Rohloff P. Associations between contraception and stunting in Guatemala: secondary analysis of the 2014-2015 Demographic and Health Survey. BMJ Paediatr Open. 2019; 3(1):e000510. PMID: 31531407.READ AT: PubMed

 

• PUBLISHED ON 6/12/2019Nicholas Kristof. The World’s Malnourished Kids Don’t Need a $295 Burger. 2019.READ AT: Custom