As a social epidemiologist and community-engaged resesrcher, Julia Fleckman focuses on the prevention of violence and violence-related harms.  Her scholarship is aimed at 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.

Fleckman partners with community organizations, advocacy groups, governmental 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.