Yuna Lee, PhD, MPH
- Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management

Overview
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- BSc, 2006 University of Western Australia
- MPH, 2009 Yale School of Public Health
- PhD, 2017 Yale University
Committees, Societies, Councils
2022-2024 Academic-at-Large, Academy of Management Health Care Management Division
Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
Member, Academy of Management
Member, AcademyHealth
Member, Industry Studies Association
Editorial Boards
Journal of Service Management
Honors & Awards
2022, Calderone Award for Junior Faculty Development
2022, 2018, 2017, Best Paper, Health Care Management, Academy of Management
2019, Judson Wolfe Excellence in Teaching Award, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
2018, Best Dissertation, Healthcare Management, Highly Commended, Emerald Publishing
2018, Best Paper, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Runner-Up, Industry Studies Association
Research
Research Interests
- Biostatistical Methods
- Healthcare Policy
Selected Publications
Lee, Y.S.H., Grob, R., Nembhard, I.M., Shaller, D. and Schlesinger, M. (2022). The New Frontier: Patients as Sources of Creative Ideas for Health Care Improvement. In Sonia Taneja (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighty-second Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online ISSN: 2151-6561.
Rathert, C., Mittler, J.N. and Lee, Y.S.H. (2022). Patient-provider therapeutic connections to improve health care: Conceptual development and systematic review of patient measures. Health Care Management Review, February 14, 2022.
Brewster, A., Lee, Y.S.H., Linnander, E.L., and Curry, L.A. (2022). Creativity in problem solving to improve complex health outcomes: Insights from hospitals seeking to improve cardiovascular care. Learning Health Systems, vol. 6, issue 2, e10283.
Lee, Y.S.H., Cleary, P.D, Nembhard, I.M. (2020). Effects of Leader Tactics on the Creativity, Implementation and Evolutions of Ideas to Improve Healthcare Delivery, Journal of General Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06139-9
Lee, Y.S.H., Cleary, P.D. and Nembhard, I.M (2020). Dissatisfied Creators: Generating Creative Ideas Amid Negative Emotion in Health Care, Work and Occupations, vol. 47, issue 2, pp. 200-227.
Lee, Y.S.H., King, M., Anderson, D., Cleary, P.D and Nembhard, I.M. (2020), The How Matters: How Primary Care Provider Communication with Team Relates to Patients' Disease Management, Medical Care, vol. 58, issue 7, p. 643-650.
Litchfield, R., Lee, Y.S.H. and Gilson, L. Creativity and Standardization: In: Creativity and Innovation Handbook. Cheltenham, U.K., Edward Elgar Publishing; 2020, Chapter 4.
Vogus, T., McClelland, L., Lee, Y.S.H., McFadden, K. and Hu, X. (January 1, 2021) Creating a compassion system to achieve efficiency and quality in health care delivery, Journal of Service Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOSM-05-2019-0132
Gilson, L.L., Lee, Y.S.H, & Litchfield, R.C. (2019). Advances in Team Creativity Research. In Oxford Encyclopedia of Business and Management. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.171.
Lee, Y.S.H., Cleary, P.D. and Nembhard, I.M. (2017). Fostering Implementation of Staff's Creative Ideas to Improve Patient Healthcare Experiences. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2017(1).