Juliet Lee, Ph.D., Anthropology
Research Scientist
Prevention Research Center
Berkeley, California

Phone: (510) 883-5772
Fax: (510) 644-0594
Email: jlee@prev.org


Juliet Lee has been at Pacific Institute since 1999, first arriving as an NIAAA Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Prevention Research Center. Dr. Lee's work at PRC has focused on the interactions between ethnicity, social environment (including public policy), and substance use and misuse, with emphasis on participatory approaches to research and prevention. She is currently the Principal Investigator of “Improving the Health of Cambodian American Women: A CBPR Approach” a community-based participatory research and pilot prevention project funded by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities; “Youth-led Tobacco Prevention among CA Southeast Asians,” a participatory research project funded by the University of California Office of the President Tobacco-Related Disease Prevention Program (TRDRP); and "The Social Meanings of Drug Use For Asian Youth," a longitudinal ethnography of drug use among Southeast Asian youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She also serves as ethnographer on "Preventing Underage Drinking by Southwest California Indians: Building Capacity, " conducting primary research on youth alcohol use and capacity building with nine Southwest California tribes. Recent past projects include "Environmental Contexts of Tobacco Use Among California Southeast Asians," a comparison of tobacco use norms among two generations of Southeast Asians, funded by TRDRP; and three prior ethnographic evaluations of tobacco control policies in bars (with Roland S. Moore). She served as ethnographer on the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Project, a community-based preventive intervention to reduce youth drinking and access to alcohol. Prior to her work at PRC she conducted intensive ethnographic fieldwork in Indonesia and community-based research in New Mexico and California. Dr. Lee holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and an MA in Asian Studies from the University of Hawaii.