Kelley Lee

Professor

Director of Global Health

Biography: 

Dr Lee is trained in International Relations and Public Administration with a focus on international political economy.  She has spent the past twenty years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she analysed the role of the UN in health, and was a core member of two major donor-led studies on WHO reform during the 1990s.  She then led the establishment of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Change and Health, and chaired the WHO Resource Group on Globalization, Trade and Health.  Dr Lee also co-led a major international initiative to secure public access to tobacco industry documents, as well as analyse their contents in relation to the globalisation of the tobacco industry.  She has authored over 70 scholarly papers, 40 book chapters and 7 books including Globalization and Health, An introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), The World Health Organization (Routledge, 2008).  She has three forthcoming books, Global Health and International Relations (Polity Press with Colin McInnes), Asia’s Role in Governing Global Health (Routledge edited with Tikki Pang and Yeling Tan), and a second edition of A Historical Dictionary of WHO (Scarecrow Press with Jennifer Fang).  She joined the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University in 2011 as Associate Dean, Research and Director of Global Health.

Research Interests: 

Professor Lee‘s research focuses on the impacts of globalisation on communicable and non-communicable diseases (notably tobacco-related diseases), and the implications for emerging forms of global governance.  She is currently completing major projects on the analysis of tobacco industry documents, global health diplomacy and the role of framing in global health governance.  She is also co-chairing the Health Study Group of the S.T. Lee Project on Asian Contributions to Global Governance based at the National University of Singapore.  She will be contributing to a forthcoming Commission on the Reform of Global Health Governance.

Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, Cancer Research UK, European Research Council, Health Canada, Nuffield Trust, Rockefeller Foundation, SSHRCC, UN Population Fund, US National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, World Health Organization and various governments.

Teaching Interests: 

Professor Lee teaches Globalization and Health with a particular focus on improving understanding of the impacts of global change on public health, and the need for collective action to tackle the risks and benefits arising from them.

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