Nora L Lee

Nora Lee received a PhD in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University, where her dissertation research focused on perinatal outcomes in China, examining prenatal secondhand smoke exposure and prepregnancy maternal BMI in relation to birth outcomes. Before she joined the faculty at Drexel University, she managed epidemiologic studies for 10 years at both the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health.

In addition to her primary faculty appointment in Dornsife's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dr. Lee has a secondary appointment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Drexel College of Medicine, and is a Research Fellow at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute.

She is currently a co-investigator on multiple studies, including EARLI (Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation), a multi-site study following pregnant women who already have an older child with autism and assessing the newborn’s development up to three years of age. She is also the principal investigator on a project to reduce youth access to tobacco in the State of Louisiana, and is engaged in the evaluation of a recent policy implemented to eliminate smoking in Philadelphia's public housing communities.

She was a contributing author of the 2006 Surgeon General’s Report on The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke, and is co-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications. In addition to her research, Dr. Lee serves on the Philadelphia Maternal Mortality Review Team, is a contributor to the Drexel Maternal and Child Health Working Group, and mentors both undergraduate and graduate students.