Chul-joo “CJ” Lee (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is Professor in the Department of Communication at Seoul National University and Associate Dean for Planning Affairs in the College of Social Sciences at Seoul National University. He served as a Department Chair and Graduate Studies Director in the Department of Communication at Seoul National University. Prior to moving to Seoul National University, Lee was an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at the Ohio State University-Columbus. Lee also worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lee’s research focuses on the interplay between communication and social determinants of health. Lee’s work has been funded by National Institutes of Health (USA), National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Science of the Republic of Korea, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (Korea), Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning, Community Media Foundation (Korea), Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute, Korea News Agency Commission, and K-Water. Lee’s research and theoretical contributions appear in more than 86 journal articles and chapters, in publications such as Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Preventive Medicine, Patient Education & Counseling, Health Education Research, Health Communication, and Journal of Health Communication.