Christina Lee
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Boston University
Boston University School of Social Work
Christina Lee is an associate professor at the School of Social Work and is the research director at the Boston University Center for Innovation and Health. She completed her pre- and post-doctoral training in addiction treatment and research at the Center for Addiction and Alcohol Studies at Brown University. Her work focuses on how discrimination and stress related to multiple stigmas influences the mental health of people of color, particularly Latinxs. She has been an NIH investigator on studies to deliver positive psychology and resiliency-based addiction counseling strategies that disrupt the stress/discrimination to substance use link among racial/ethnic populations. Dr. Lee serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. She has been an invited national speaker for her expertise on health disparities and intervention science to professional groups, including the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Psychological Association Division 12, Clinical Psychology.
Areas of Expertise
- Health and Medicine
- Immigration
- Race and Ethnicity
- Social Inequality or Stratification
- Social Theory
- Social Work
- Psychology
- Structural Determinants of Health Inequity
Methodology
- Clinical
- Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
- Focus Groups
- Interviews
- Mixed Methods
- Qualitative Methods
- Quantitative Methods
- Randomized Control Trials (RCTs)
- Secondary Data Analysis
- Survey Methods and Questionnaires
- Affiliates
- Inaugural - Faculty