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-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.