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

Protocol of a randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of an adapted future possible selves task on drinking identity and hazardous drinking in graduating high school students.
(2025 Dec 3)
BMC Public Health
Lindgren KP, Shah V, de Luna F, Hall NA, Weinstein AP, Wu D, Fairlie AM, Lee CM, Calhoun BH, Neighbors C
Genetic Characterization of the First Case of Lumpy Skin Disease in Singapore, 2022.
(2025 Nov 20)
Vet Sci 12(11):
Koh EY, Tan AKS, Ip YCA, Lau C, Ong J, Ng OW, Chen J, Lee C, Fabbri S, Chua J, Balakumar S, Ho K, Wong WK, Tan BZY, Fernandez CJ, Chang SF, Yap HH
Genome sequences of Listeria ivanovii from clinical infections and food products, 1987-2025.
(2025 Nov 24)
Microbiol Resour Announc
Ende Z, Walters C, Stroika S, Smith T, Kim J, Lawsin A, Batra D, Rowe L, Katz LS, Lee CC, Kucerova Z
Multiple motives for cannabis use: identifying common motive combinations and exploring differences across combinations.
(2025 Nov 21)
J Cannabis Res
Dyar C, Curtis J, Lee CM
Optimization of Bottom-Up PBPK Model Development in SIMCYP via Retrospective Analysis of Clinical Human PK Data.
(2025 Nov)
Clin Transl Sci 18(11): e70417
Schulz Pauly JA, Leblanc AF, Chowdhury EA, Qian Y, Rezaei L, Lee CM, Badawi M, Kikuchi R
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