Elizabeth Lee DrPH

Education

Uniformed Services University, Public Health, DrPH 2017
The George Washington University, Global Health, MPH 2009
Tufts University, Community Health and Russian Studies, BA 2006

Biography

Dr. Lee is a pediatric epidemiology and health systems researcher with additional experience in integrating and applying health services, policy, implementation science and spatial epidemiology methodologies to large datasets to address critical health issues for military family health. She joined the USU Department of Pediatrics in 2022 as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Health Systems Research and Clinical Epidemiology, with a secondary appointment in Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics. Prior to this, she led the Army's U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief multi-million dollar HIV research, surveillance and evaluation portfolio that addressed pressing service delivery questions for African partner militaries. Dr. Lee currently serves as PI of a cohort study studying the effects of malaria prophylaxis exposure on pregnancy outcomes, as well as a study exploring alignment of maternity and neonatal intensive care unit services, transfer practices, and quality outcomes in the US Military Health System (MHS). Dr. Lee collaborates with the USU Center for Health Services Research as co-PI on a study evaluating fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the MHS, with the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research on HIV- and COVID-19 related outcomes, and with Department of Pediatrics colleagues on several COVID-19 studies of post-COVID sequelae and immunization. Dr. Lee is particularly interested in mother-infant dyad health and quality of care, the inpatient experience, and infectious disease prevention.

Representative Bibliography

Lee EH, Rashid A, Lawal I, Adekanye U, Adamu Y, Godfrey C, Agaba PA, Okeji N, Desai P. Protecting healthcare workers and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of baseline and follow-up infection prevention and control needs in Nigerian military healthcare facilities delivering HIV services. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023 Nov 14;23(1):1254. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10289-x. PubMed PMID: 37964245; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10647028.

Koehlmoos TP, Lee EH, Wisdahl J, Donaldson T. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders prevention and clinical guidelines research - workshop report. BMC Proceedings. 2023, 17 (Suppl 12), 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-023-00272-z.

Khamadi SA, Bahemana E, Dear N, Mavere C, George F, Kapene R, Papianus G, Willoughby W, Chambers J, Ganesan K, Mwakabanje I, Bacha JM, Desai P, Almas S, Coakley PD, Wolfman V, Lee E, Hickey PW, Livezey J, Agaba PA. Factors associated with viral suppression and drug resistance in children and adolescents living with HIV in care and treatment programs in southern Tanzania. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2023, piad040, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piad040.

Sexton K, Susi A, Lee E, Hisle-Gorman E, Rajnik M, Krishnamurthy J, Nylund CM. Trends in Well-Child Visits and Routine Vaccination among Children of U.S. Military Members: An Evaluation of the COVID-19 Pandemic Effects. J. Clin. Med. 2022,11, 6842. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11226842.

Lee EH, Mancuso JD, Koehlmoos T, Stewart VA, Bennett JW, Olsen C. Quality and Integrated Service Delivery: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Effects of Malaria and Antenatal Service Quality on Malaria Intervention Use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2022; 7(11):363. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7110363

Tsikhutsu I, Bii M, Dear N, Ganesan K, Kasembeli A, Sing’oei V, Romboisia K, Ochieng C, Desai P, Wolfman V, Coakley P, Lee E, Hickey PW, Livezey J, Agaba P. Prevalence and Correlates of Viral Load Suppression and HIV Drug Resistance Among Children and Adolescents in South Rift Valley and Kisumu, Kenya [published online ahead of print, 2022 Jan 29]. Clin Infect Dis. 2022;ciac059. doi:10.1093/cid/ciac059

Lee E, Ganesan K, Khamadi SA, Meribe SC, Njeru D, Adamu Y, Magala F, Crowell TA, Akom E, Agaba P, Desai P, Hamm T, Teyhen D, Ake JA, Polyak CS, Shaffer D, Sawe F, Hickey PW. Attaining 95-95-95 through Implementation Science: 15 Years of Insights and Best Practices from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research's Implementation of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 104(1),12-25. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0541

Lee E, Olsen C, Koehlmoos T, Masuoka P, Stewart VA, Bennett J, Mancuso J. A cross-sectional study of malaria endemicity and readiness to deliver services in Kenya, Namibia, and Senegal. Health Policy and Planning. 32(suppl_3): iii75-iii87.

Lee E, Miller RH, Masuoka P, Schiffman E, Wanduragala D, DeFraites R, Dunlop S, Stauffer W, Hickey PW. Predicting Risk of Imported Disease with Demographics (PRIDD): Geospatial analysis of imported malaria in Minnesota, 2010-2014. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 99(4), 978–986. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0357.

Lee E, Madhavan S, Bauhoff S. Levels and variations in the quality of facility-based antenatal care in Kenya: evidence from the 2010 service provision assessment. Health Policy and Planning. 31(6), 777–784. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czv132.