Positions

Associate Professor, School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Performance

Contact Info

leemih17@ecu.edu

Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Co-investigator Network

Mi Hwa Lee

member of

Association of Oncology Social Work 2018 - 2022
Geographic Management of Cancer Health Disparities Program (GMaP), Region 1 2020
Southern Gerontological Society 2019

selected publications

article
- Facilitating Students' CommandofReflection, Practice, and Research: A COVID-19 Photovoice Project
  . Journal of Social Work Education. 2025
- Nativity and racial/ethnic differences in HPV infection among U.S. adults, NHANES 2007-2016
  . Frontiers in Public Health. 13. 2025
- Facilitating Students' CommandofReflection, Practice, and Research: A COVID-19 Photovoice Project. Journal of Social Work Education. 2025
- Korean American immigrant women's mammography use in Korea: Factors associated with medical tourism
  . Social Sciences - Special Issue. 13. 2024
- The overrepresentation of parents with disabilities in child protection
  . Children and Youth Services Review. 2024
- Multilevel contributors to racial and ethnic inequities in the resolution of abnormal mammography results. Cancer Causes and Control. 2024
- Insights from a web-based survey into the psychosocial experiences of adults with dyslexia: Findings from a final comment question. Dyslexia. 29:441-458. 2023
- Associated factors with colorectal cancer screening awareness in the Black Belt region of Alabama: a comparison among three types of colorectal cancer screening.. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice. 16. 2023
- Human Papillomavirus and Vacc Awareness among Korean American Immigrants in Alabama: Would Internet Use Improve Health Awareness?. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 2023
- Patient-Physician Relationship and Mammography Use in Korean American Women. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 25:129-135. 2023
- Asian Americans in the U.S. Workplace: A systematic literature review. Research in Human Resource Management. 79-108. 2022
- HPV vaccine uptake among foreign-born Blacks in the U.S.: Insights from the National Health Interview Survey 2013-2017. Cancer Causes & Control. 2022
- Korean American immigrant women's attitudes towards breast cancer prevention: A qualitative study. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. 2022
- Mammogram Uptake among Korean American Women in the South: Do Health Beliefs Matter?. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 23:3693-3699. 2022
- Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening and Coping Strategies in Korean American Women. J Transcult Nurs. 32. 2021
- Does Health Literacy Affect the Uptake of Annual Physical Check-ups?: Results from the 2017 US Health Information National Trends Survey. Archives of Public Health. 2021
- The association between fatalism and mammography use in Korean American women. Health Education & Behavior. 2021
- Development of mHealth intervention to promote pap test an HPV vaccination in an underserved immigrant population: a culturally targeted and individually tailored text messaging approach.. JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 2019
- Factors associated with mammogram use in Korean American immigrant women. Health Education & Behavior. 2019
- Development and evaluation of culturally and linguistically tailored mobile app to promote breast cancer screening. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 7. 2018
- The role of Title IV-E education and training in child protection workforce diversification.. Journal of Public Child Welfare. 12:333-353. 2018
- Breast cancer screening disparity among Korean Immigrant women in Midwest. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 18:2663-2667. 2017
- Child protection services and parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectal Disabilies. 30:521-532. 2017
- Cultural barriers to the receipt of Pap test and HPV vaccination in young Korean immigrant women: implications for intervention development. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. 28:353-362. 2017
- Mental health literacy in Korean older adults: implications for practice and policy. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 24:523-533. 2017
- Health literacy in an underserved immigrant population: New implications toward achieving health equity. Asian American Journal of Psychology. 6. 2015
chapter
- <span style="font-size:12pt;">Teaching Photovoice in a COVID-19 reality: Unlocking social work student creativity in qualitative research</span><span style="font-size:medium;"></span>. Cognella Academic Publishing. 2023
- Oncology Social Work 2019

presentations

presentation

principal investigator on

Open Access Publishing Support Fund awarded by ECU Libraries' Open Access 2022
Start-Up Funds awarded by East Carolina University 2017 - 2020
Secondary analysis, Qualitative data analysis, Manuscript preparation & completion awarded by School of Social Work/ College of Health and Human Performance 2017

co-principal investigator on

Using photography to understand the impact of COVID-19 on rural Eastern North Carolina awarded by Puffin Foundation Ltd 2022

professional service activities

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Psychometric evaluationofPublic Stigma Associated with Alzheimer's disease with Korean Americans 2025
Committee Member Association of Oncology Social Work (AOSW), Research and Knowledge Development Committee Member 2018 - 2021

education and training

B.A. in Gerontology and Social Work, Seoul Women's University
M.A. in Education, Seoul National University
M.S.W. in Social Work, University of Minnesota
Ph.D. in Social Work, University of Minnesota

located in facility

201 Rivers Building, Mailstop 505