Matthew Lee, DrPH, MPH

Matthew Lee, DrPH, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Section for Health Equity and the Center for the Study of Asian American Health within the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Lee earned their doctorate in Sociomedical Sciences from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar.

As a community-engaged implementation scientist and critical health equity researcher, Dr. Lee’s research applies participatory approaches and mixed methods to examine the reach and impact of policies and evidence-based interventions within structurally underserved communities. Broadly, Dr. Lee is focused on improving the equitable implementation and sustainability of policies and programs to eliminate health disparities and advance health justice and has published this research in peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Public Health, Social Science & Medicine, Translational Behavioral Medicine, Health Services Research, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, and Implementation Science Communications.

Dr. Lee previously served on the Conference Program Committee and Student Committee for the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences (IAPHS) and has been selected twice (2020, 2022) to present in the “Best of D&I” session at the Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health co-hosted by NIH and AcademyHealth.