Congratulations to Dr. Lisa M. Lee, Institute of Public Health advisory board member and instructor in the Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health, on her appointment as the Executive Director of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Dr. Lee, who teaches research, professional and public health ethics at GSU, has been with the CDC’s Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Sciences since 2006, most recently serving as Chief Science Officer.
Dr. Lee is an epidemiologist, surveillance scientist, and public health ethicist and has worked at CDC in the ethics of public health surveillance, scientific integrity, development and evaluation of surveillance systems, research on HIV and fertility, HIV/AIDS survival, HIV and tuberculosis, and data quality.
Dr. Lee is the lead editor of Principles and Practice of Public Health Surveillance, 3d edition (Oxford University Press, 2010). She serves as associate editor for the Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, has authored numerous scientific publications, and has served as a peer and guest reviewer for many scientific conferences and scientific journals.
Dr. Lee holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins and an MS in bioethics from Alden March Bioethics Institute/Albany Medical College.