Dr. Lee received his PhD from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at NTU in 2018. He was a recipient of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) International Postdoctoral Fellowship (HIPF) administered by NTU and the Ministry of Education. Under this fellowship, Dr. Lee held a joint postdoctoral research fellow appointment at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
As a public health communication scientist, Dr Lee’s research focuses on developing health technologies to tackle health inequalities, and how to take advantage of digital traces—data from social media, smartphones, wearables, and electronic health records—intelligently and ethically to understand and improve public health outcomes. To date, he has secured more than HKD 5.8 million in research funding as the Principal Investigator from various external agencies and organizations to develop inclusive digital health technologies and ecosystems.
Dr. Lee has published in several top-tier journals such as the Journal of Health Communication, Health Communication, Journal of Medical Internet Research, New Media & Society, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, as well as Science Communication.
Beyond his academic work, Dr Lee has strong industry ties and has collaborated with several multinational corporations (MNCs) from the U.S. and Europe, small-medium enterprises (SMEs) and various government agencies in Singapore. Dr. Lee currently serves as a Global Future Council Fellow at the World Economic Forum, working with global industry thought leaders in advising the global agenda on responsible big data use. Dr. Lee’s research has won several prestigious international awards, such as the top published research paper award from the International Communication Association in 2019, as well as the McQuail Award 2018 from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) for best article on advancing communication theory. For his scholarly contributions, he was conferred the title of McQuail Honorary Fellow by ASCoR in 2020.
Dr. Lee also teaches and conducts training on health communication at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore.
