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I-Min Lee, M.B.,B.S., Sc.D.

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I-Min Lee, MBBS, MPH, ScD, FACSM is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was born and educated in Malaysia prior to receiving her medical degree from the National University of Singapore. She then completed her MPH and ScD degrees at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her primary research interest is in the role of physical activity for promoting health and well-being, and she has published more than 550 scientific articles. One of these, published by the Lancet in 2012 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-18876880), that estimated the impact of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases has been highly influential in the field being cited more than 9,700 times to date.

She is editor or co-editor of physical activity epidemiology textbooks that have been translated into the Korean and Chinese languages. She has served on national and international expert panels developing physical activity guidelines including the inaugural 2008 US Physical Activity Guidelines, the 2010 WHO Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health, and the 2013 AHA/ACC Guideline on Lifestyle Management to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk, and sits on the Steering Committee of international Lancet Physical Activity Series. She is Principal Investigator of one of the first large-scale epidemiologic studies using accelerometers to measure physical activity and sedentary behavior among 18,000 participants in the Women’s Health Study from 2011 to 2015, who are currently being followed for health outcomes. Using these data, she was one of the first investigators to question whether the conventionally accepted 10,000 steps/day is necessary for health (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/06/well/move/10000-steps-health.html).

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  1. R01AG078256 (WAYNE/LEE/HAUSDORFF) Jun 1, 2023 - Feb 28, 2027
    NIH
    Using Instrumented Everyday Gait to Predict Falls in Older Adults Using the WHS Cohort
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. R01AG078256 (WAYNE, PETER MICHAEL) Jun 1, 2023 - Feb 28, 2027
    NIH
    Using instrumented everyday gait to predict falls in older adults using the WHS cohort
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
  3. R01CA227122 (EVENSON, KELLY R.) Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2023
    NIH
    Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Cancer Incidence in Women
    Role: Co-Investigator
  4. R01DK109316 (LU, AMY SHIRONG) Apr 1, 2016 - Feb 28, 2021
    NIH
    The Narrative Effect of Active Video Games on Long-term Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity
    Role: Co-Investigator
  5. U01CA182913 (BURING, JULIE E. ;LEE, I-MIN) Sep 17, 2014 - Aug 31, 2024
    NIH
    Women's Health Study: Infrastructure support for cohort follow-up
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator

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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.