Faculty Profile
Alexa (Lex) Eisenberg, PhD, MPH (they/she)
- Lecturer III, Health Behavior & Health Equity
Dr. Eisenberg’s courses build students’ capacity to analyze and challenge the systems
that produce health inequities, drawing on history, critical social theory, and liberatory
social movements. Their research explores how housing policies and practices shape
racial and health inequities, particularly through mechanisms of displacement. Their
academic work is shaped by relationships with community organizers and advocates,
and aims to disrupt unjust housing systems through scholarship and solidarity.
- PhD, University of Michigan, 2021
- MPH, University of Miami, 2015
- BA, University of Michigan, 2012
- Housing justice
- Health equity
- Community organizing
- Tenants rights
- Research advocacy
Eisenberg, A., Brantley, K. (2024) Record Costs: Collateral Consequences of Eviction Court Filings
in Pennsylvania. University of Michigan Poverty Solutions and Housing Solutions for
Health Equity. Report.
Eisenberg, A., Brantley, K. (2023) The Crisis is Not Temporary: Evictions after COVID Emergency Rental Assistance in Detroit. University of Michigan Poverty Solutions. Report.
Eisenberg, A., Brantley, K. (2022) Crisis before the emergency: Evictions in Detroit before and after the onset of COVID-19. University of Michigan Poverty Solutions. Working Paper.
Eisenberg, A., Seymour, E., Hill, A.B., and Akers, J. (2020). Toxic structures: speculation and lead exposure in Detroit’s single-family rental market, Health and Place, 64.
Eisenberg, A., Mehdipanah, R., and Dewar, M. (2019). ‘It’s like they make it difficult for you on purpose’: barriers to property tax relief and foreclosure prevention in Detroit, Michigan, Housing Studies; 35(8).
Eisenberg, A., Brantley, K. (2023) The Crisis is Not Temporary: Evictions after COVID Emergency Rental Assistance in Detroit. University of Michigan Poverty Solutions. Report.
Eisenberg, A., Brantley, K. (2022) Crisis before the emergency: Evictions in Detroit before and after the onset of COVID-19. University of Michigan Poverty Solutions. Working Paper.
Eisenberg, A., Seymour, E., Hill, A.B., and Akers, J. (2020). Toxic structures: speculation and lead exposure in Detroit’s single-family rental market, Health and Place, 64.
Eisenberg, A., Mehdipanah, R., and Dewar, M. (2019). ‘It’s like they make it difficult for you on purpose’: barriers to property tax relief and foreclosure prevention in Detroit, Michigan, Housing Studies; 35(8).
Email: alexae@umich.edu
Address: 3826 SPH I
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
For media inquiries: sph.media@umich.edu
Address: 3826 SPH I
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
For media inquiries: sph.media@umich.edu
Areas of Expertise: Health Equity, Urban Health