Welcome to the Sunmin Lee Lab

Sunmin Lee Lab at UCI is a social epidemiology lab led by University of California, Irvine (UCI) professor, Sunmin Lee, ScD. Our research aim is to reduce health disparities by applying epidemiologic and intervention studies.

Our Research Focuses

Epidemiologic

We want to better understand the causes of health disparities in our projects.

Interventional

We aim to design, implement and evaluate culturally-tailored interventions  to reduce health disparities in our projects.

Mixed-Methods Research

We combine both quantitative and qualitative strategies in our data collection and analysis.

Current NIH-funded Studies

DREAMS: A longitudinal study to investigate associations between immigrant stressors, sleep, and cardiometabolic health among Asian Americans (R01MD015186)

STOP CRC: a culturally tailored randomized controlled trial to increase colorectal cancer screening among Chines and Korean Americans applying shared decision-making approach at primary care setting (R01MD012178).

A study to investigate associations between stressors, sleep, and cognitive function among older populations (R01MD015186-03)