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Alexa Eisenberg

Alexa Eisenberg

Lecturer, Health Behavior and Health Equity, School of Public Health

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.