Kelley Lee
- Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
- Director of Global Health, Associate Dean - Research
Email: kelley_lee@sfu.ca
Tel: 778-782-9039
Office: BLU 11322
Education
- B.A., University of British Columbia
- M.P.A., University of Victoria
- M.A., Univertsity of Sussex (International Relations)
- D.Phil, University of Sussex (International Political Economy
Biography
Dr. Lee is trained in International Relations and Public Administration with a focus on international political economy. She has spent over twenty years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she remains Professor of Global Health Policy, where she analyzed 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 analyze their contents in relation to the globalization of the tobacco industry. She has authored around 80 scholarly papers, 40 book chapters and 10 books including Globalization and Health, An introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), The World Health Organization (Routledge, 2008), Global Health and International Relations (Polity Press with Colin McInnes, 2012), and Asia’s Role in Governing Global Health (Routledge edited with Tikki Pang and Yeling Tan, 2012), She joined the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University in 2011 as Associate Dean, Research and Director of Global Health. She is an Associate Fellow of the Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, London and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians.
Research Interests
Professor Lee‘s research focuses on the impacts of globalization on communicable and non-communicable diseases (notably tobacco-related diseases), and the implications for emerging forms of global governance. She is currently completing projects on global health diplomacy, the framing of global health governance, and cigarette butt waste, and has recently received renewed funded from the US National Cancer Institute to continue her longstanding research on analyzing tobacco industry documents in collaboration with researchers in the UK, US and Australia.
Her research has been funded by the CIHR, 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.
