HaEun Lee PhD, RN

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Assistant Professor

Department

Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership

Contact

4347 NURS1
[email protected]

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482

HaEun Lee is accepting new PhD students.


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Interests

  • Global health

  • Reproductive health

  • Maternal health

  • Health equity

  • Merge Lab

Dr. Lee's research program integrates social and relational determinants, relationship-centered interventions, and health system innovations to improve equitable access to high-quality maternal and reproductive health care in low-resource and humanitarian settings. 

Current Research Grants and Programs

  • University of Michigan Center for Global Health Equity Impact Accelerator, "Exploration, Adaptation, and Pilot Testing of a Male-Engaged Group Family Planning Intervention in Nakivale Refuge Settlement, Uganda." G030617. (PI).

  • University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) Ronald and Deborah Freedman Fund for International Population Activities. “Postpartum family planning (PPFP) in refugee settlements (Uganda).” (PI).

  • University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Faculty Seed Grant. “Urukundo Rwacu (‘Our Love’): Pilot testing group couples counseling intervention for postpartum family planning in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda.” (PI).

Teaching

Dr. Lee has extensive formal teaching and mentoring experience. She teaches undergraduate nursing courses and mentors students conducting global health research across the schools of medicine, public health, nursing, and LSA.

Affilliations/Service

  • Member, Research Committee: Sigma Theta Tau, Rho Chapter, 2016-present (Kappa Epsilon Chapter 2016-2017)

  • Member, Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), 2018-present

  • Member, Mid-Career Group, Midwest Nursing Research Society, 2020-present

  • Member, Society of Family Planning, 2023-present

  • Member, Global Korean Nursing Foundation, 2026-present

Notable Awards/Honors

  • Scholarship, American Public Health Association Early Career Nurses, 2022

  • MNRS Distinguished Abstract for Paper Presentation, MNRS, 2025

  • Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Policy & Care Impact Accelerator, 2026

  • Daisy Award for Nurses Advancing Health Equity, Daisy Foundation, 2026

Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2021

  • BSN, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI 2016

Publications Highlights

  • Lee, H., Bjelland, C., Wallace, K., Asiimire, D., & Mwesigwa, F.S. (2026). Global aid cuts and local health consequences in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda. JAMA Network Open, 9(5), e2615000. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.15000

  • Lee, H., Nsengiyumva, R., Sieka, J., Lori, J. R., & Thiyagarajan, D. (2026). FIGO preconception checklist: Preconception care for mother and baby. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 173(3), 1648-1649. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.71033

  • Asiimire, D., Gilbertson, I., Dada, A., Moyer, C. A., & Lee, H. (2026). Marital status on women’s experiences in VSLA in Fort Portal, Uganda. Family Relations, 75(3), 2057-2072. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70140

  • Lee, H., Kim, S., Sieka, J., Harmon-Gray, WM., Veliz, P. T., & Lori, J. R. (2025). Improving Decision-to-Incision Interval (DDI) of emergency cesarean sections through Mobile-Based Obstetric Emergency System (MORES) and midwife-led triage in Bong County, Liberia: A quasi-experimental study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(10), 1596. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22101596

  • Lee, H., Asiimire, D., Atwiine, J., Namanya, B., Nsengiyumva, R., Darbes, L., & Mwesigwa, F. S. (2025). Exploration of Nakivale refugees’ and stakeholders’ perceptions and priorities of male engagement in pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and family planning: A qualitative study. Journal of Pregnancy, 3050315. https://doi.org/10.1155/jp/9050315

  • Lee, H., Rego, R., Fiseha, N., Barman, A.K., Sharif, N., Wachira P, Rakqib, R., Islam, M. S., & Abubakar, A. (2025). Social cohesion, trust, and utilisation of maternal health services among refugee and host community women in Bangladesh and Kenya. Disasters, 49(4), e70001. 

  • Barnes, G. D., Lee, H., & Berlacher, K. (2025). Understanding why Aspirin is underutilized for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 86(23), 2260–2262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2025.09.1589

  • Lee, H., Shen, A., Dada, A., Gilbertson, I., Moyer, C. A., & Asiimire, D. (2025). How do gender and marital status influence village savings and loan associations related gains and usage? A cross‐sectional study in Fort Portal, Uganda. Health Science Reports, 8(4), e70597. https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.70597

  • Lee, H., Fiseha, N., Bateisibwa, J., Moyer, C. A., Greenberg, J., & Maffioli, E. (2024). Community perceptions of health accountability meetings with local politicians to improve healthcare quality: A qualitative study in Western Uganda. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 3526. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-21025-3

  • Reynolds, C. W., Lee, H., Sieka, J., Perosky, J., & Lori, J. R. (2024). Implementation of a technology-based Mobile Obstetric Referral Emergency System (MORES): Qualitative assessment of health workers in rural Liberia. JMIR Mhealth and Uhealth, 12, e58624. https://doi.org/10.2196/58624

  • Zielinski, R., Ajak, D.K., Drummond, N., & Lee, H. (2024). Implementation of healthy men healthy communities: A health promotion and gender-based violence prevention program for male South Sudanese refugees in Uganda. Healthcare, 12(2), 147. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12020147

  • Lee, H., Dahn, B., Sieka, J., Nyanplu, A., Reynolds, C. W., Edson, C., Lockhart, N., & Lori, J. R. (2023). The use of a mobile obstetric emergency system to improve obstetric referrals in Bong County, Liberia: A pre-post study. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 165, 229-236. doi: 10.1002/ijgo.15175. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.15175

  • Lee., H., Perosky, J., Horton, M., Reynold, C., Nyanplu, A., & Lori, J. (2023). Verbal autopsy analysis of maternal mortality in Bong County, Liberia: A retrospective mixed methods study. BMJ Open Quality, 12(2), e002147. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002147

  • Ebeye, T., Lee, H., & Sriharan, A. (2023). Physician-suggested innovative methods for health system resilience amidst workforce emigration and sociopolitical unrest in Nigeria: A survey-based study. Annals of Global Health, 89(1), 13. doi:10.5334/aogh.4025

  • Ebeye, T. & Lee, H. (2023) Down the brain drain: A rapid review exploring physician emigration from West Africa. Global Health Research and Policy, 8(1), 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-023-00307-0