Dr Shona Jane Lee

Shona is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Principle Investigator on the TeenPath Covid study. She is a Public Health Social Scientist, specialising in the field of Medical Anthropology. Since completing her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2018 on Human African Trypanosomiasis (or ‘Sleeping Sickness’) elimination interventions in Uganda, she has held postdoctoral Research Fellowships studying community participation in Ebola vaccine trials in Sierra Leone (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), and public experiences and perceptions of COVID-19 testing programmes in Scotland (University of Edinburgh).

Shona is passionate about participatory methods and involving the public and patient groups in health research. Working with the Teenpath project at RCSI in partnership with Trinity College Dublin, Shona is investigating how adolescents in Ireland have experienced COVID-19, with a view to identifying and addressing health inequalities revealed, and potentially worsened, by the pandemic.