Kelley Lee is Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. She was formerly Head of Department at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Change and Health.

Her research focuses on collective action to manage transboundary health risks including major infectious disease outbreaks. Her current projects focus on strengthening pandemic prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. She leads the Pandemics and Borders Project on the effective use of travel measures during public health emergencies, and the Bridge Research Consortium to support public trust and equitable access to new vaccines and immunotherapies as part of Canada’s Immuno-engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub (CIEBH).

She is currently a Commissioner on the Lancet-National University of Singapore PRIME (Pandemic Readiness, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation) Commission, and on the Editorial Board for the WHO Global Report on the Economic and Commercial Determinants of Health. She co-chaired the forthcoming Royal Society of Canada-Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Expert Panel Report on Canada’s role in global health. She has published 15 books, 250+ papers and 60+ book chapters including co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics (OUP, 2020). She is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and Royal Society of Canada.