Robin Fleming, Ph.D.

Robin Fleming, RN, PhD, F.A.A.N
Dr. Fleming serves on the faculty of the University of Washington-Bothell (UWB) as an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Nursing (August, 2024). In her directorship, Dr. Fleming is responsible for ensuring campus accreditation of nursing programs, and leading collaborative teams in developing, implementing, and evaluating nursing programs and policies at both campus and tri-campus levels.

Dr. Fleming’s research and teaching focus on health policy and community and public health for nursing and health studies students, and is informed by substantial interdisciplinary experience in school health, education, and policy at municipal, state, and federal levels. As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow (2017-2018), Dr. Fleming served in the
office of U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, where she worked on public health and nursing policy issues and prepared briefs and other documents for Senator's Baldwin's work in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. During her tenure as a Fellow, Dr. Fleming also worked in the Domestic Social Policy Division of the Congressional Research Service, preparing and providing health policy research to members of Congress to help inform legislation.

Following her fellowship, Dr. Fleming provided consulting services for the Washington State Health Care Authority to assist the agency in organizing statewide site visits for the NAM Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030. In 2020 she joined the faculty of UWB as an assistant teaching professor.

Prior to her fellowship, Dr. Fleming led and administered school nursing and other school-based health services in Washington State's 295 school districts for the State's education agency. Her work helped to reduce health inequities by facilitating improved health status impacting school attendance and academic outcomes for vulnerable children. She formed strong partnerships with multiple community organizations and state agencies to shape policies that promoted a culture of
health in non-health entities such as schools, and helped to embed nursing leadership in the State's Accountable Communities of Health.

Dr. Fleming's policy work is strongly informed by her 13-year career in school nursing in Seattle Public Schools where she developed grant-funded programs. One program aimed at reducing health disparities by diversifying the workforce through creation and implementation of a public health and career pathway program for immigrant students. She also used grant funding to develop and lead a peer health education program at an urban high school with majority BIPOC and low-income students.

Dr. Fleming's research has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals, and one of her studies won Best Completed Research Award of 2012 by the National Association of School Nurses.