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Student
Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
HEEJIN LEE started her Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology at Seoul National University in 2018.
She has experience analyzing national health data such as the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and the Philippine National Nutrition Survey (NNS). Using those data, she had a chance to investigate the associations of dietary habits/dietary intakes with chronic disease or mortality cross-sectionally and longitudinally. She gained experience recruiting the cohort study (FiLWHEL, ongoing) and the Randomized controlled trial. She is currently working on Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and metabolite analysis among Asian immigrants in Korea for her dissertation and other projects. She has had the opportunity to participate in several research projects from the Ministry of Food (MFDS) and Drug Safety and Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). Those projects involved developing a new survey system or dietary assessment tool such as a food frequency questionnaire.
Her recent interest is sustainable diet and its usage in Asia, and she recently earned a scholarship from the Institute for Sustainable Development. As a first author, she recently published "Development and Validation of a Questionnaire on the Feasibility of a Mobile Dietary Self-Monitoring Application" in Korean J Community Nutr.
Before her Ph.D. course, she was a researcher with two and a half years of experience working at Sempio Foods Company. She joined the task force team to launch a beverage and evaluate the efficacy of products. She pursued her master's and a bachelor’s degree in nutritional science and food management at Ewha Womans University. She had laboratory experience with a molecular biology background there.