Research & Interest

Dr. Lee is an epidemiologist at UCLA Semel Institute Center for Community Health. His expertise includes epidemiologic methods in study design, data analysis, sampling frames, and survey instrument design and development. Dr. Lee currently serves as the Project Director and co-investigator for NINR funded Family-to-Family (F2F) Project, a family-based HIV intervention study in Thailand (PIs: Rotheram-Borus; Jiraphongsa). In collaboration with the Thai Ministry of Public Health, the goal of the study is to mount and evaluate an intervention for HIV+ parents, partners, and their caregiver family members in order to benefit their school-age children.

Dr. Lee is currently a co-investigator for a NIMH funded project entitled "Post-trial HIV Vaccines: Receptivity, Risk & Disparities" (PI: Cunningham). The goal of this study is to test and refine a survey instrument to assess intentions to adopt HIV vaccines, barriers to and motivators for adoption, and to assess likely changes in HIV risk behaviors, examine levels of intention adopt post-trial vaccines and to change HIV risk behaviors.

Selected Publications

• Lee, S-J., Brooks, R.A., Newman, P.A., Seiden, D., Sangthong, R, Duan, N. (in press). HIV vaccine acceptability among immigrant Thai residents in Los Angeles: A mixed methods approach.  AIDS Care. 

  Kakinami, L, Newman, P.A., Lee, S-J., Duan, N. (in press). Differences in HIV vaccine acceptability between men and women: The importance of gender-specific social and structural factors.  AIDS Care. 

  Li, L., Wu, Z.Y., Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Guan, J.H., Yin, Y.P., Detels, R., Wu, S., Lee, S-J., Cao, H.J., Lin, C.Q., Rou, K.M., Liu, Z.D. & The NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group. (in press). Visiting entertainment venues and sexual health in China.  Archives of Sexual Behavior. 

  Newman, P.A., Duan, N., Lee, S-J., Rudy, E., Seiden, D., Kakinami, L., Cunningham, W.E. (in press).  Willingness to participate in HIV vaccine trials: The impact of trial attributes. Preventive Medicine.

  Li, L., Wu, Z.Y., Wu, S., Lee, S-.J, Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Detels, R., Jia, M., Sun, S. (in press). Mandatory HIV testing in China: the perception of health care providers. International Journal of STDs and AIDS.

  Lee, S-J., Detels, R., Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Duan, N. (2007) The effect of social support on mental and behavioral outcomes among HIV-affected adolescents. American Journal of Public Health, 97 (10): 1820-1826.

  Hendriksen, E.S., Pettifor, A., Lee S-J., Coates, T., Rees, H. (2007). Predictors of condom use among South African youth age 15-24: The RHRU National Youth Survey. American Journal of Public Health, 97(7): 1241-1248.

  Lee, S-J., Detels, R., Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Duan, N., Lord, L. (2007)  Depression and social support among HIV-affected adolescents. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 21 (6): 409-417.

  Sayles J., Pettifor A., Wong M., MacPhail C., Lee S-J., Hendriksen E., Rees H.V., Coates, T. (2006). Factors associated with self-efficacy for condom Use and Sexual Negotiation Among South African Youth.  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 43(2): 226-233.

  Lester P., Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Lee, S-J., Comulada, W.C., Cantwell, S., Wu, N., Lin, Y-Y. (2006). Rates and predictors of anxiety and depressive disorders in adolescents of parents with HIV.  Vulnerable Children & Youth Studies, 1(1): 81-101.

  Newman P.A., Duan N., Lee S-J., Rudy E.T., Seiden D.S., Kakinami L., Cunningham W.E. (2006).  HIV vaccine acceptability among communities at risk: The impact of vaccine characteristics.  Vaccine, 24(12):2094-101.

  Basu, I., Jana S., Rotheram-Borus M.J., Swendeman D., Lee S-J., Newman P.A., Weiss R.E. (2004).  HIV prevention among sex workers in India. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 36(3):845-852.

  Sneed C.D., Morisky  D.E., Rotheram-Borus  M.J., Lee  S-J., Ebin V.J. (2004).  Indices of lifetime polydrug use among adolescents Journal of Adolescence.  Journal of Adolescents, 27(3):239-49.

  Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Leonard N., Lightfoot M., Franzke  L., Tottenham N., Lee S-J. (2002).  Picking Up the Pieces: Caregivers of adolescents bereaved by parental AIDS. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry  1359-1045(200201)7:1 Copyright 2002. SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi) Vol. 7(1): 115-124; 020546.

  Rosenbach A., Lee S-J., Johr, R.H. (2002). Treatment of Medium-Brown Solar Lentigines Using an Alexandrite Laser Designed for Hair Reduction. Archives of Dermatology, 138: 547-548

  DeBernado R.L., Aldinger C.E., Lee S-J., Dawood O.R., Hanson R.E., Rinaldi S.R. (1999). An e-mail assessment of undergraduates’ attitudes toward smoking. Journal of American College Health, 48(2): 61-66.