Expertise

Areas of Interest and Expertise

  • Behavioral Health
  • Community-Based Participatory Research
  • Dissemination and Implementation Research
  • Health Disparities
  • Health Information Technology
  • Immigration Health Care
  • Mental Health
  • Rural Health

Dr. Hee Yun Lee is a behavioral health scientist and her major research areas include health disparities, behavior change intervention using RCT, and rural health.

Dr. Lee is currently conducting multiple research projects. With funding from the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), she investigates the effectiveness of a mobile application-based intervention that aims to increase HPV vaccination in an underserved immigrant group with limited English proficiency.

Recently, she completed two research projects: (1) a text message-based intervention study funded by the National Cancer Institute (R21) that aimed to increase Pap test and HPV vaccination in a minority group and (2) a mobile-app based intervention to improve a mammogram uptake among an immigrant women group funded by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.

Affiliations

Endowed Academic Professor, School of Social Work, University of Alabama
2018

Past Affiliations

Associate Dean of Research, School of Social Work, University of Alabama
2018

Professor, School of Social Work, University of Alabama
2018

Professor, School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (past)

Masonic Cancer Center, Health Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (past)

Associate Professor, School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (past)

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (past)

Communities
Oncology, Social Work
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, Social Welfare, 2006
MSW, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
MSG, University of Southern California, 1997
MA, Seoul National University, Home Economics, 1994
BA, Seoul National University, Home Economics, 1988