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.

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Recent Publications

Alcohol and Cannabis Perceived Descriptive and Injunctive Norms, Personal Use, and Consequences Among 2-Year College Students.
(2025 Feb 22)
Behav Sci (Basel) 15(3):
Duckworth JC, Morrison KM, Lee CM
A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Review of Neuropsychiatric Comorbidities in Children With Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
(2025 Mar 27)
Clin Pediatr (Phila)
Sweeny KF, Lee CK, Mitchell PD, Osiakwan S, Scott C, Jonas MM
A Conceptual Model to Achieve Health Equity in APOL-1 Clinical Studies.
(2024)
Health Equity 8(1): 701-706
Hardy Richard RA, Hayes R, Flemming R, Portillo C, Araojo R, Lee C
Monthly patterns of depressive symptoms and substance use and their relation to longer-term hazardous substance use and mental health problems: Examining mutual maintenance using monthly data from young adults.
(2025 Mar 12)
Addict Behav 166(): 108326
Rhew IC, Graupensperger S, Martinez G, Lee CM
Significant initial hyperglycemia in young children with intracranial hemorrhage related to abuse.
(2025 Mar 14)
Brain Inj
Randall MM, Lee CLS, Walsh Lang C, Sampson LR, Chen BG, Brown LA
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