LEE Jeong Kyu

Jeong Kyu Lee is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at National University of Singapore (NUS), specialising in health communication and health promotion. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland’s Institute for Social Science Research and the University of Wollongong’s Centre for Health Initiatives in Australia.

His research lies at the intersection of communication, behavioural science and public health. The substantive topics of his research include the design and evaluation of health communication interventions, social capital and social networks, family and peer relationships to health, effects of social media and mobile health. Additionally, he has a strong interest in utilising the expertise in research methods and statistical modelling in conducting program and policy evaluation. His research work is available through journals such as BMC Public Health, BMJ Open, Health Communication, JAMA Pediatrics, Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of Health Communication, Prevention Science as well as chapter contributions in edited volumes.

• Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
• Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Joint)
• Research Associate, Centre for Family and Population Research, National University of Singapore

• Health Communication and Promotion
• Social Determinants of Health
• Family and Peer Relationships to Health
• Program and Policy Evaluation
• Tobacco Control
• Cancer Prevention

• Public Health Communication
• Health Behaviour and Communication Theory
• Social Network and Social Media Analytics
• Research Methods

• Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, USA (Communication Science). 2010
• M.A., Michigan State University, USA. 2006
• B.S., Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. 2002

• JFC Article of the Year Award in Family Communication, Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, USA 2018
• Honorable Mention Poster. ECPN Poster Contest, Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, USA 2012
• Top Four Faculty Paper Award, Division of Applied Communication, National Communication Association (NCA). 2011
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Tobacco Control Research, ClearWay Minnesota. 2010-2012
• Edwin Erle Sparks Graduate Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University. 2006-2007

• Research Fellow, Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), University of Queensland, Australia. 2015-2016
• Research Fellow, Centre for Health Initiatives (CHI), University of Wollongong, Australia. 2013-2015
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ClearWay Minnesota, USA 2010-2012

• Lee JK & Hecht ML (in press). Measurement: Indicators for monitoring and evaluation of social marketing campaigns. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Social Marketing.
• Lee JK, Lin L, & Kang H (2021). The influence of normative perceptions on the uptake of the COVID-19 TraceTogether digital contact tracing system: Cross-sectional study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. Online ahead of print.
• Wu XV, Chi Y, Lee JK, Goh HS, Chen D, Gorill H, Chao F, & Klainin-Yobas, P (2021). Systematic review and meta-analysis on dance intervention for older adults with mild cognitive impairment in cognition, neuroplasticity, physical function, depression and quality of life. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 122, 104025.
• Lin L, Ling KW, Huang Q, & Lee JK (2021). Breast cancer information behaviors and information needs among Singapore women: A qualitative study. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 22(6), 1767-1774.
• van der Eijk Y, Ng XY, & Lee JK (2021). Cross-sectional survey of flavoured cigarette use among adult smokers in Singapore. Tobacco Induced Diseases. 19(June), 42.
• Han M, Tan XY, Lee R, Lee JK, & Mahendran R (2021). Impact of social media on health-related outcomes among older adults in Singapore. JMIR Aging. 4, e23826.
• Tan C, Lin L, Lim M, Kun OS, Wong ML, & Lee JK (2020). Tobacco use patterns and attitudes in Singapore young male adults serving military national service: A qualitative study. BMJ Open, 10, e039367.
• Lee JK, Lin L, & Wu XV (2020). Social capital and health communication in Singapore: An examination of the relationships between community participation, perceived neighborliness and health communication behaviors. Journal of Health Communication, 25(4), 323-332.
• Lee R, Yu J, Rawtaer I, Allen PF, Bao Z, Feng L, Lee JK, et al (2020). CHI study: Protocol for an observational cohort study on ageing and mental health in community-dwelling older adults. BMJ Open, e035003.
• Lee JK, Lin L, & Magee CM (2020). Investigating the relationships between social capital, chronic health conditions and health status among Australian adults. BMC Public Health. 20, 329.

• Youth smoking is a problem, so is youth vaping, Channel News Asia, 4 March 2019