Julia Fleckman’s work centers on the prevention of violence and violence-related harms.  Her scholarship is focused on understanding how structural and social conditions play a role in shaping community and family -level violence as well as the development and implementation of successful prevention strategies. She has a particular emphasis on community-partnered research and evaluation, with the goal of strengthening multi-sector collaborations and community organizational capacity to utilize data and best practices.

Dr. Fleckman’s areas of concentration presently include examination of community-level risk and protective factors for firearm violence and domestic violence, in addition to evaluating the implementation, effectiveness, and sustainability of programs and policies aimed at modifying such factors. She partners with community organizations, advocacy groups, governmentall agencies, hospital systems, school districts, and other key stakeholders to not only understand and contextualize how structural and social conditions may play a role in shaping violence, but to also most effectively design, apply, and adapt effective models for prevention.

Prior to joining Washington University, Fleckman served on the faculty at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University and as director of research and evaluation at the Tulane University Violence Prevention Institute. She completed her PhD in community health and behavioral sciences at Tulane University, and a postdoctoral fellowship with the support of Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

Areas of Focus:

  • Violence prevention 
  • Community firearm violence 
  • Family violence 
  • Community-partnered research and evaluation 
  • Social epidemiology 
  • Implementation science 

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