Christina S. Lee, PhD

Christina Lee received her PhD from New York University in 2002 and completed a NIH T32 funded postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Addictions and Alcohol Research, Brown University, in 2004. The goal of her research, which tailors interventions by addressing social and structural determinants that affect substance use among culturally diverse individuals, is to promote health equity in addictions treatment and policy. As an early career investigator she developed a stigma mitigation intervention (CASMI) that incorporated social determinants into her treatment for Latine adults; it was tested in a large scale RCT. She is currently NIH funded to conduct a Type I Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation study to test the CASMI, delivered by community health workers to Black and Latine primary care patients, to reduce harms related to substance use. She serves as Senior Editor for the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, is on the Editorial Advisory Board for Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, the NIAAA journal, and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. She teaches Substance Use and Treatment and focuses on consequences and causes of substance use as a social justice issue.