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Nora Lee, PhD, is an Assistant Research Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health. She holds secondary appointments in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Drexel College of Medicine and serves as a Research Fellow at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute. Dr. Lee earned her PhD in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a BS in Physiology from the University of California at Davis.
Her research focuses on Maternal and Child Health, Reproductive and Perinatal Health, Health Disparities, and Tobacco Control. She employs epidemiologic methods to investigate critical public health issues including prenatal exposures, autism risk factors, tobacco policy impacts, and socioeconomic determinants of health.
Dr. Lee's publications consistently explore perinatal outcomes, tobacco control interventions, and health disparities. Recent work emphasizes maternal smoking effects, autism epidemiology, diabetes environmental factors, and community-based health evaluations. She frequently utilizes large national datasets and interdisciplinary methodologies.
She actively contributes to multiple research initiatives: co-investigator for the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI); principal investigator for Louisiana youth tobacco access reduction; and evaluator of Philadelphia's public housing smoking ban. Dr. Lee mentors undergraduate and graduate students and serves on the Philadelphia Maternal Mortality Review Team. She was a contributing author to the 2006 Surgeon General’s Report on tobacco exposure.
