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Nancy Fleischer, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor

University of South Carolina
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Arnold School of Public Health
Health Sciences Building, 205C
800 Sumter Street
Columbia, SC 29208

Phone: (803) 777-6220
Fax: (803) 777-2524
E-mail: nfleisch@mailbox.sc.edu

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
2010-2012, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
2010, Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2006, M.P.H., Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1999, B.S., Chemistry, B.A., Spanish, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
AREAS OF INTEREST
Social and Environmental Determinants of Health
Health Disparities
Global Noncommunicable Disease Risk
Epidemiologic Methods
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Fleischer NL, Diez Roux AV, Hubbard AE. “Inequalities in BMI and smoking behavior in World Health Surveys: evidence for a social transition in chronic disease risk,” American Journal of Epidemiology. 2012 Feb 1; 175(3):167-76.

De Maio FG, Linetzky B, Ferrante D, Fleischer NL. “Extending the Income Inequality Hypothesis: Ecological Results from the 2005 and 2009 Argentine National Risk Factor Surveys,” Global Public Health. 2012; 7(6):635-47.

Fleischer NL, Diez Roux AV, Alazraqui M, Spinelli H, Lantz PM. “Socioeconomic patterning in tobacco use in Argentina.” Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 2011 Oct; 13(10):894-902.

Fleischer NL, Diez Roux AV, Alazraqui M, Spinelli H, De Maio F. “Socioeconomic gradients in chronic disease risk factors in middle-income countries: evidence of effect modification by urbanicity in Argentina.” American Journal of Public Health. 2011 Feb; 101(2):294-301.

Parra DC, Gómez LF, Fleischer NL, Pinzón JD. “Built environment characteristics and perceived active park use among older adults: Results from a multilevel study in Bogotá,” Health and Place. 2010 Nov; 16(6):1174-81.

Hubbard AE, Ahern J, Fleischer NL, Van der Laan M, Lippman SA, Bruckner T, Satariano WA. “To GEE or not to GEE: comparing estimating function and likelihood-based methods for estimating the associations between neighborhoods and health,” Epidemiology. 2010 July; 21(4): 467-74.

Fleischer NL, Fernald LC, Hubbard AE. “Population intervention models: New causal parameter applied to data from rural Mexico,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2010 Jan; 64(1):12-21.

Alazraqui M, Diez Roux A, Fleischer N, Spinelli H. “Desigualdades sociales y estado de salud auto-referida, Ciudad de Buenos Aires 2005,” Cadernos de Saúde Pública. 2009 Sep; 25(9):1990-2000.

Fleischer NL, Diez Roux AV. “Using directed acyclic graphs to guide analyses of neighbourhood health effects: an introduction,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2008 Sep;62(9):842-6. (Editor's Choice)

Fleischer NL, Fernald LC, Hubbard AE. “Depressive symptoms in a large sample of low-income women in rural Mexico,” Epidemiology. 2007 Nov;18(6):678-85.

 

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