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Simon Craddock Lee, PhD, MPH
Cancer Prevention Fellow
Basic and Biobehavioral Research Branch
Behavioral Research Program
Dr. Lee is a medical anthropologist with advanced graduate training in public health. In 2004, he joined the NCI as a Cancer Prevention Fellow in the ethics of prevention and public health through the Office of Preventive Oncology Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. At NCI, his work examines how we approach differences in health between social groups and how those groups are constituted in cancer control research and policy. He is interested in conceptual models of human variation (biological) and human difference (social) that move beyond the race/ethnicity paradigm that frames most work in health disparities. As a member of the Basic and Biobehavioral Research Branch, Dr. Lee leads an initiative modeling social context dynamics in psychoneuroimmunology research using the HPV/cervical cancer disease paradigm. He is also conducting a qualitative analysis of survey data to understand policy implications given adults’ attitudes toward universal HPV vaccination of all pre-teen girls. In 2006, he was an invited participant at the School of Advanced Research on the Human Experience (SAR) in Santa Fe, NM. An edited volume based on this work, Confronting Cancer: From Metaphor to Advocacy, is forthcoming from SAR Press.
In addition to cancer prevention, Dr. Lee maintains an interest in culture/behavior curricular reform in medical education, critical theory and qualitative methods in medical humanities research. Dr. Lee currently serves as co-chair of the Culture & Qualitative Research Interest Group, a scientific interest group of intramural and extramural scientists sponsored by the NIH. In 2007, he contributed to the design of two NIH program announcements to fund behavioral and social science research on health disparities (PAR 07-063).
His ethnographic research has been supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation. He has published on organizational ethics in biomedical culture, including the professional secularization of hospital chaplaincy and the role of collective identity in not-for-profit community and religiously-sponsored hospitals. His book documenting the effects of pluralization on ethical identity within a contemporary Catholic hospital system is forthcoming in the Philosophy & Medicine series from Springer Publishing.
Prior to graduate school, Dr. Lee was Programs Coordinator with Funders Concerned About AIDS, Inc., a national association of foundation and corporate-giving program officers in health philanthropy. He obtained an MPH in health policy and administration (ethics) from the University of California, Berkeley before going on to receive his doctorate from the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. While at UCSF, he completed a traineeship in health services research with the Institute for Health Policy Studies. A Yale University graduate with honors in the history of art, he was a state-certified sexual assault counselor and was actively involved in mental health services reform in New Haven, CT. Born in England, he was raised in the United Nations community of New York City. He lives in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of the District of Columbia.
Select Publications and Presentations
Interrogating Cultural Competence (discussant), American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, Nov 2007.
Causal Mechanisms and Intervention Targets: Expanding the Race/Ethnicity Paradigm in Health Disparities. American Society of Bioethics & the Humanities, Washington DC, Oct 2007.
It’s not You, It’s Me: Clinical Culture & Social Difference in End of Life Care. Keynote, Trinity Health System Ethics Forum, Chicago IL, April 2007.
Social Difference and Cancer: "Social context" in the Stress Response Model. For Bringing Anthropology to the Study of Cancer (chair) Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa FL March 2007.
Lee, SJC. 2007 "Ethics" and "Issues in Cancer Disparities" in Encyclopedia of Cancer & Society, Graham Colditz, Ed. Sage Publications.
Lee, S.J.C. 2006 “Ethics of Articulation: Constituting identity in a Catholic Hospital System” In Sorrell Dinkins, C. and J. Sorrell (Eds.). Listening to the Silences: Re-Thinking Ethics in Healthcare. (pp. 69-129) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Invited chapter, peer reviewed.
Lee, S.J.C. "Rethinking race and ethnicity in health disparities" Anthropology News 47(3):7-8, March 2006; as part of Understanding Race & Human Variation, a public education project of the American Anthropological Association.
Lee, SJC. "The risks of race in addressing health disparities" The Hastings Center Report, vol 35 (4): 2005
"Troubling Cancer Disparities: Concepts of Race and Ethnicity in Social/Behavioral Research" for Anthropologies of Cancer (chair/organizer) Invited Panel, American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 2005
Lee, S. "Methods unplugged: Focus on IRBs" Commentary, SOLGAN, 2003 vol. 22(2):1-2.
Lee, S.J.C. "Ethics of Articulation: Constituting identity in one Catholic hospital system" in Listening to the Silences: Health Care Ethics in the 21st Century, Sorrell Dinkins, C. and J. Sorrell, eds. University of Wisconsin Press. Peer reviewed chapter, In Press.
Lee, S.J.C. "In a secular spirit: Strategies of Clinical Pastoral Education" in Health Care Analysis: International Journal of Philosophy and Policy, vol. 10, 339-56, 2002.
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