Paul J. Fleming, PhD, MPH

Dr. Fleming focuses his work on the root causes of racial health inequities and strategies to address them. He conducts community-based participatory research focused on the health needs of Latinx immigrants in Michigan and examines how to best integrate anti-racist principles into public health training and practice. He also is a member of Public Health Awakened and contributes to community organizing efforts to promote health through social change. 

• HBEHED651: Program Development In Health Education
• HBEHED679: Historical Roots Of Health Inequities

• NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Division of Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego, 2015-2016
• PhD, Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
• MPH, Behavioral Sciences & Health Education, Emory University, 2011
• B.A., Political Science and Spanish, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006

• Fleming, P.J., Novak, N., Lopez, W.D. U.S. Immigration Law Enforcement Practices and Health Inequities: A Conceptual Model and Public Health Agenda. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
• Fleming, P.J., Lopez, W.D., Mesa, H., Rion, R., Rabinowitz, E., Bryce, R., Doshi, M. The impact of the 2016 US election on immigrant families: perspectives from health and social service workers in Southeast Michigan. BMC Public Health.
• Fleming, P.J., Lopez, W.D., Ledon, C., Waller, A., Harner, M., Martinez, R., Kruger, D.J. (2019) 'I'm going to look for you and take your kids': Reproductive justice in the context of immigration enforcement. PLOS One. Epub ahead of print.
• Fleming, P.J., Villa Torres, L., Taboada, A., Richards, C., Barrington, C. (2016) Marginalisation, discrimination and the health of Latino immigrant day labourers in a central North Carolina community. Health and Social Care in the Community. DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12338
• Fleming, P.J., Gruskin, S., Roja, F., Dworkin, S.L. (2015). Men's violence against women and men are inter-related: Recommendations for simultaneous intervention. Social Science & Medicine. 146, 249-56.
• Fleming, P.J., McCleary-Sills, J., Morton, M., Levtov, R., Heilman, B., Barker, G. (2015). Risk factors for men's perpetration of intimate partner violence: Results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey in eight countries. PLoS ONE. 10(3).
• Fleming, P.J., Lee, J.G.L., Dworkin, S.L. (2014). 'Real men don't': Constructions of masculinity and inadvertent harm in public health interventions. American Journal of Public Health. 104(6), 1029-1035.