Bruce Y. Lee is a computer modeler, writer, journalist, professor, and physician who builds and applies computer modeling and artificial intelligence (AI) in health.[1] He is a professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.[2] He was previously an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, executive director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh.[3]
He holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and completed his internal medicine residency training at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[4]
Lee is the founder and executive director of Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research (PHICOR) which builds and utilizes computer models to understand and address issues in health, including the COVID-19 pandemic.[5][6] He is a senior contributor for Forbes, where he covers science and health.[7]
In 2023, Lee became a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)'s roundtable on obesity solutions.[8] Dr. Lee is also the Chair of NASEM’s Standing Committee on Evidence Synthesis and Communications in Diet and Chronic Disease Relationships and member of NASEM’s Evaluating the Process to Develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 committee.[9][10] Additionally, Dr. Lee was on the committee for Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.[11] Previously, Lee was the associate editor for the peer-reviewed medical journal, Vaccine.[12]
Journalism
editDr. Lee is a Senior Contributor for Forbes, covering a wide range of health-related topics including medicine, wellness, digital health, and the business of health and having written over 1,600 articles with many of them having been selected as Editors Choices.[13] His articles have been read over 87 million times since January 2019. He is a regular contributor for Psychology Today, where he has a regular blog called "A Funny Bone to Pick", maintains the “Minded by Science” newsletter on Substack, and serves on the D.C. Science Writers Association (DCSWA) board as well.[14][15] Additionally, his writing has appeared in a number of other media outlets including The New York Times, Time, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, STAT, and HuffPost. [16][17]
Awards
editLee and his team's research on COVID-19 vaccination was awarded the American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2020 Article of the Year.[18][19][20][21][22]
References
edit- ^ Whitten, Allison (20 April 2021). "Covering Modern Data Analysis: A Guide to AI and Computational Modeling". The OPEN Notebook. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
- ^ Smart, Charlie (29 July 2021). "Where People Are Most Vulnerable to the Delta Variant". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
- ^ Reynolds, Gretchen (3 May 2017). "Child's Play Is Good for All of Us". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
- ^ "Bruce Y Lee". CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ Simon, Scott (19 December 2020). "What History Can Teach Us About Distributing The COVID-19 Vaccine". NPR. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
- ^ Bartsch, Sarah (2022). "Maintaining face mask use before and after achieving different COVID-19 vaccination coverage levels: a modelling study". The Lancet Public Health. 7 (4): e356–e365. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00040-8. PMC 8903840. PMID 8903840.
- ^ "Bruce Y. Lee". Forbes. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "Roundtable on Obesity Solution". National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "Standing Committee on Evidence Synthesis and Communications in Diet and Chronic Disease Relationships". National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ^ "Evaluating the Process to Develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025". National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ^ "Committee Member and Staff Biographies". Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ "Vaccine". Elsevier. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "Bruce Y. Lee". Forbes. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ Lee, Bruce Y. "A Funny Bone to Pick". Psychology Today. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ "DSCWA Board of Directors". The D.C. Science Writer's Association. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ Lee, Bruce Y. (26 Feb 2021). "Which Vaccine Should You Get?". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ Lee, Bruce Y. (23 September 2016). "How Our Health-Care System Is Feeding the Obesity Epidemic". Time. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ Boulton, Matthew L. (1 July 2021). "American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2020 Article of the Year". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 61 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2021.05.001. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ Lee, Bruce Y. (1 October 2020). "Vaccine Efficacy Needed for a COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent or Stop an Epidemic as the Sole Intervention". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 59 (4): 493–503. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2020.06.011. PMC 7274250. PMID 32511569. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ Lee, Bruce Y. (8 July 2015). "Why transporting vegetables is not so different from delivering vaccines". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ Lee, Bruce Y. (27 June 2017). "Drones to the Rescue". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ Lee, Bruce Y. "Bruce Y. Lee". HuffPost. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
External links
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