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Berkeley Franz is a health services researcher and implementation scientist whose research and teaching focus on health disparities and substance use. Dr. Franz is Professor of Community-based Health at the 帝王会所 Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, 帝王会所 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 medical sociology from the University of Miami. Her research program considers how stigma and discrimination serve as fundamental barriers to health equity and population health improvement. Dr. Franz has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and books on community and population health, including hospital-based community benefit programs and strategies to increase access to evidence-based care for individuals with opioid use disorder. She currently leads two NIH/NIDA-funded studies focused on stigma reduction as a strategy for implementing buprenorphine for opioid use disorder within safety net hospitals and rural primary care settings.