Haeok Lee

Haeok Lee, FAAN, PhD, RN, is a professor at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She is an experienced nurse behavioral scientist with extensive clinical and research experience focusing on populations affected by health disparities. Her primary research addresses health inequity issues among immigrant populations through theory and community-based participatory research. Prof. Lee is a pioneer in developing cultural and social context specific storytelling videos for encouraging health behavior changes, specifically in immigrant and African populations. 

Prof. Lee initiated cancer research and research capacity building based on her Fulbright Scholarship for Africa from 2017-2000 and recently completed an R21 (1R21NR018734) grant, a pilot RCT, and an mHealth delivered storytelling intervention to promote cervical cancer screening among Malawian women living with HIV. Currently, she serves as a site PI of the Asian Cohort Alzheimer’s disease project (ACAD: U19-AG079774) to recruit 5,081 older Asian adults across the U.S. and Canada. The NYU site focuses on working with the Korean American subpopulation. The study collects DNA, plasma biomarkers, and genotypes, as well as social factors and clinical diagnostic information. For more information read the article NYU Meyers joins NIH-funded multisite study of Alzheimer’s disease in Asian Americans.  

Prof. Lee mentors faculty, postdoctoral scholars, PhD students, and undergraduate students from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds and from various disciplines. She has sponsored overseas visiting scholars.