Christine Lee, PhD

Faculty Appointment(s)

Research Professor

Leadership Role(s)

Associate Director, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors

Co-Director, BASICS Innovations Group

leecm@uw.edu

206-543-6574

Personal Statement

The transition to adulthood is the developmental period when alcohol use, marijuana use, and their associated consequences reach their lifetime peak. My scholarly interests focus on the etiology and prevention of substance use behaviors and consequences during adolescence and young/early adulthood. I have developed a highly successful portfolio of work bridging developmental, social, and motivational theory with applied prevention and intervention techniques to strategically address high-risk behaviors during the transition to adulthood. My research addresses important questions regarding how recent marijuana legislation in Washington State impacts young adult marijuana use and consequences; what motivates young adults to engage in alcohol and marijuana use; how alcohol expectancies, alcohol use and consequences are linked in a natural feed-forward process that maintains high-risk behaviors; how developmental transitions and event timing influence use; and what are efficacious prevention and intervention strategies and for whom and under what conditions are these most effective.

Department Affiliations

Centers/Programs
Training Programs

Recent Publications

Correction: Chromatin landscapes reveal developmentally encoded transcriptional states that define human glioblastoma.
(2025 Jun 2)
J Exp Med 222(6):
Mack SC, Singh I, Wang X, Hirsch R, Wu Q, Villagomez R, Bernatchez JA, Zhu Z, Gimple RC, Kim LJY, Morton A, Lai S, Qiu Z, Prager BC, Bertrand KC, Mah C, Zhou W, Lee C, Barnett GH, Vogelbaum MA, Sloan AE, Chavez L, Bao S, Scacheri PC, Siqueira-Neto JL, Lin CY, Rich JN
Cytauxzoon paradoxurus n. sp., a novel Cytauxzoon species identified in common palm civets in Singapore.
(2025 May 15)
Parasit Vectors 18(1): 175
Chong SQY, Yeo D, Arceo AVV, Ong JLY, Lee CHE, Yeak RJY, Wee ASZ, Teo PYZ, Tay MKJ, Chan AHJ, Fernandez CJ, Xie R, Wong AMS, How CB, Chang SF
Blood Alcohol Content Estimation Formulas (eBAC): Challenges, Considerations, and Implications for Intensive and Longitudinal Survey Research.
(2025 May 15)
J Stud Alcohol Drugs
Hultgren BA, Calhoun BH, Canning J, Fossos-Wong N, Guttmannova K, Kilmer JR, Cadigan JM, Larimer ME, Lee CM
Hyperspectral characterization of wastewater in the Tijuana River Estuary using laboratory, field, and EMIT satellite spectroscopy.
(2025 Jun 15)
Sci Total Environ 981(): 179598
Scrivner E, Mladenov N, Biggs T, Grant A, Piazza E, Garcia S, Lee CM, Ade C, Tufillaro N, Grötsch P, Zurita O, Holt B, Sousa D
Development and preliminary testing of a secure large language model-based chatbot for brief alcohol counseling in young adults.
(2025 Jul 1)
Drug Alcohol Depend 272(): 112697
Suffoletto B, Clark DB, Lee C, Mason M, Schultz J, Szeto I, Walker D
Show complete publication list »
Edit Profile