Nora Lee

Biography

Before she joined the faculty in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Nora Lee managed epidemiologic studies for 10 years at both the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Drexel University School of Public Health. Dr. Lee received a PhD in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins, where her dissertation research focused on perinatal outcomes in northeast China. Her work has examined prenatal secondhand smoke exposure and prepregnancy maternal BMI in relation to birth outcomes. She was a contributing author of the 2006 Surgeon General’s Report on The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke. Dr. Lee is currently the principal investigator on a project to reduce youth access to tobacco in the State of Louisiana, and is engaged in the evaluation of a recent policy implemented to eliminate smoking in Philadelphia's public housing communities.  In addition, Dr. Lee is a Research Fellow at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute and a co-investigator on the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) Study, a multi-site study following pregnant women who already have an older child with autism and assessing the newborn’s development up to three years of age.

Research Interest

Reproductive or Sexual health