Lesleigh Lee

Lesleigh is a fourth year doctoral student at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University in the department of Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences.  Lesleigh’s research focuses on community based participatory research in underserved communities.  Her research interest include adolescent mental health and adolescence resiliency.  Lesleigh received both her bachelors in Biology and Master in Public Health in Environmental Epidemiology from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.  Lesleigh received her Master in Social Work from the University of South Carolina.

Lesleigh worked on a qualitative analysis of health literacy related to Ebola Virus Disease with her mentor, Dr. Thomas Crea, Professor at the School of Social Work at Boston College. Dr. Crea is the Principal Investigator for Long Term Stress and Impairment in Children and Youth after an Acute Infectious Disease Outbreak: A Longitudinal Study of the Social, Familial and Individual Effects of Ebola Viral Disease (EVD), funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD).

Email:  lesleigh@tamu.edu