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

Recent Publications

Advancing Health Equity: Efforts to Expand Education on Skin Lightening Products.
(2024 Jul-Aug)
Public Health Rep 139(4): 401-404
Araojo R, Browning-McNee LA, Katz LM, Manga P, Michele T, Lee CS, Santiago Y, Hsieh J, Welch T
Simultaneous use of alcohol and cannabis and attenuated age-related declines in alcohol and cannabis use disorder symptoms across young adulthood.
(2024 Sep)
Drug Alcohol Depend Rep 12(): 100252
Graupensperger S, Calhoun BH, Fairlie AM, Walukevich-Dienst K, Patrick ME, Lee CM
Correction to: Hip implant performance prediction by acoustic emission techniques: a review.
(2024 Jul 18)
Med Biol Eng Comput
Remya AR, Vishwash B, Lee C, Srinivasa Pai P, Espinoza Orías AA, Ozevin D, Mathew MT
Randomized Feasibility Study Evaluating Multiple FDA-approved Microbubbles for CEUS Lymphography.
(2024 Jul)
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open 12(7): e5985
Jang S, Rames JD, Hesley GK, Brinkman NJ, Tran NV, Fahradyan V, Lee CU
Negative urgency as a state-level process.
(2024 Jul 17)
J Pers
King KM, Feil MC, Gomez Juarez N, Moss D, Halvorson MA, Dora J, Upton NF, Bryson MA, Seldin K, Shoda Y, Lee CM, Smith GT
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