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

Satellite-Empowered Public Health: Mapping Coastal Fecal Contamination Risks Through Sentinel-2 Particulate Signatures.
(2025 Apr 11)
Environ Res
Kong Y, Jimenez K, Lee CM, Wu X, Jay JA
Detecting microbial engraftment after FMT using placebo sequencing and culture enriched metagenomics to sort signals from noise.
(2025 Apr 11)
Nat Commun 16(1): 3469
Shekarriz S, Szamosi JC, Whelan FJ, Lau JT, Libertucci J, Rossi L, Fontes ME, Wolfe M, Lee CH, Moayyedi P, Surette MG
The UK Infected Blood Inquiry: A Personal Reflection.
(2025 Apr 2)
Haemophilia
Lee CA
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
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