Faculty

Alexa Eisenberg, PhD, MPH, is an educator, researcher, and organizer based in Detroit whose work integrates community-based knowledge and mixed methods to understand how policy implementation and enforcement impacts housing, health, and racial equity. Their research exposes injustice within our racialized, for-profit housing system, especially as it manifests through tax foreclosure, eviction, property speculation, and slum-lording. Their work builds the evidence base for movements and policies that support the rights and livelihoods of tenants, aiding organizers and advocates to resist systemic displacement and make housing a human right for all.

Eisenberg is a Lecturer in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity in the School of Public Health and a collaborator with the Housing Solutions for Health Equity initiative. They worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Poverty Solutions and trained as a public health demographer with the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center. They hold a PhD in public health from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.