Faculty Profile

Paul Fleming is an Assistant Professor in Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He received his PhD in Health Behavior with a graduate minor in Sociology from the University of North Carolina and his MPH in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from Emory University. He has previously worked as a Community Health Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua developing and implementing health programs and also as a consultant on issues related to the social determinants of health for the World Bank and U.S. Agency for International Development. Currently, his mixed-methods research focuses on the root causes of health inequities, with a particular focus on developing and evaluating interventions in poor and marginalized communities in Michigan and abroad. In his work in Michigan, he uses a community-based participatory approach with Latino immigrants to examine how policies and discrimination contribute to poor physical and mental health outcomes. In his international work, he focuses on how gender norms - and their intersection with class and race/ethnicity - can result in men's harmful behaviors, including partner violence, sexual risk behaviors, and lack of support for family planning.

• 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.