Heeyoung Lee

About Me

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY. My research focuses on population health, criminology, and life-course analysis, with particular emphasis on spatial methods and longitudinal analysis.

My work investigates the temporal and spatial dimensions of health inequalities and examines how neighborhood contexts and social determinants shape outcomes across different populations.

Recent Publications

2025

• Lee, Heeyoung*, and Tse-Chuan Yang. 2025. "Unequal Spillover of Human Capital: Longitudinal Analysis of Mortality Among Populations by College Degree in US Counties, 2010-2022." American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
• Yang, Tse-Chuan, Carla Shoff, Kate Strully and Heeyoung Lee. 2025. "Features of Residential Counties and Individual Health Conditions for Opioid Use Disorder Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries." The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.
• Lee, Heeyoung*, and Matt Vogel. 2025. "Exposure to Police Killing and Adolescents’ Self-Concept: Diverging Effects for Black and White American Youths." Journal of Adolescence.

2024

• Lee, Heeyoung*, and Tse-Chuan Yang. 2024. "Spatial and Temporal Dimension of Black-White Mental Health Paradox in the US: Effect of Cumulative Neighborhood Disadvantage." Population Research & Policy Review.
• Lee, Heeyoung*. 2024. "State-Level Structural Sexism and Adolescent Sexual Violence Victimization in the US." Child Abuse and Neglect.
• Lee, Heeyoung*. 2024. "Delinquency During Puberty as a Biosocial Behavior: Time-Varying Effects of Social Contexts on Girl’s Delinquency in South Korea." Criminal Justice and Behaviors.
• Jung, Seong-Jo, Heeyoung Lee, and Chan. S, Suh. 2024. "Moving Apart and Coming Together: The Dynamics of Coalition Building in the Case of South Korean LGBTQ Movement." Journal of Homosexuality.
• Lee, Heeyoung*, and Seong-Jo Jung. 2024. "Gender Differences in the Relationship between Coming Out as LGB to Family and Depression in South Korea." Society and Mental Health.

Teaching Experience

2025

• Instructor: Criminology (Fall, Summer)
• Instructor: Medical Sociology (Fall, Spring)
• Teaching Assistant: The 12th KOSTAT-UNFPA Summer Seminar on Population

2024

• Instructor: Medical Sociology (Fall, Summer)

2023

• Co-Instructor: Statistics for Sociologists (Spring)