Matthew Lee, MPH is a DrPH candidate in Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. His primary areas of focus are in social and behavioral health, intervention design and evaluation, and implementation science, with an emphasis on addressing community-level health disparities and sustaining health equity. Matthew’s current research projects use mixed and qualitative methods to examine the equitable implementation and sustainability of tobacco control policies, meaningful integration of participatory implementation science approaches with community-based systems science methods, cultural adaptation of evidence-based instruments and programs for underserved communities, uptake of opioid education and naloxone training in higher education, de-implementation of low-value and harmful practices, and capacity building for community-based organizations and health systems.
Matthew previously served as a Quality Improvement and Technical Assistance Project Officer in the Bureau of HIV/AIDS at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He has also completed projects with the United Nations, the Center for Public Health Law Research, ICAP at Columbia University, the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, and Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.
In addition to serving on the IAPHS Student Committee since it first formed in 2018, Matthew is also a pre-doctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars program, an Assistant Research Scientist at the NYU Langone Department of Population Health in the Section for Health Equity, and an Associate Member of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Matthew received an MPH in Sociomedical Sciences with an advanced certificate in Health Promotion Research and Practice from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and holds a BA in Anthropology and English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis.