Faculty Profile

Gwenyth Lee received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2013 and completed a postdoc at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests broadly relate to the intersection of infectious (particularly enteric) disease and childhood undernutrition, primarily in Latin America.

PhD (International Health), Johns Hopkins SPH, 2013
M.H.S. (Biostatistics), Johns Hopkins SPH, 2012
M.H. (International Health), Johns Hopkins SPH, 2008
B.A. (Chemistry), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003

Current projects are focused on the environmental and dietary factors affecting development of the microbiome among children in Ecuador ('EcoMID') study; characterizing vulnerability to climate change among households in rural Ecuador; and examining factors affecting treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients in Lima, Peru

Lee, G.O., Richard, S.A., Kang, G., Houpt, E.R., Seidman, J.C., Pendergast, L.L., Bhutta, Z.A., Ahmed, T., Mduma, E.R., Lima, A.A., Bessong, P., Jennifer, M.S., Hossain, M.I., Chandyo, R.K., Nyathi, E., Lima, I.F., Pascal, J., Soofi, S., Ladaporn, B., Guerrant, R.L., Caulfield, L.E., Black, R.E., Kosek, M.N.; MAL-ED Network Investigators. A Comparison of Diarrheal Severity Scores in the MAL-ED Multisite Community Based Cohort Study. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2016 Jun 24.

Ambikapathi, R., Kosek, M., Lee, G.O., Mahopo, C., Patil, C.L., Maciel, B.L., Turab, A., Islam, M.M., Ulak, M., Bose, A., Paredes Olortegui, M., Pendergast, L.L., Murray-Kolb, L.E., Lang, D., McCormick, B.J.J., Caulfield, L.E. How multiple episodes of exclusive breastfeeding impact estimates of exclusive breastfeeding duration: report from the eight-site MAL-ED birth cohort study. Mat Child Nutr. 2016.

Kosek., M., Mduma, E., Kosek, P.S., Lee, G.O., Svensen, E., Pan, W.K.Y., Paredes, Olortegui, M., Bream, J.H., Patil, C., Ramal Asayag, C., Meza Sanchez, G., Caulfield, L.E., Gratz, J., Yori, P.P. Plasma tryptophan and the kynurenine tryptophan ratio are associated with the acquisition of statural growth deficits and oral vaccine underperformance in populations with environmental enteropathy. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2016.

Lee, G.O., Olortegui, M.P.,Pinedo, S.R., Ambikapathi, R., Yori, P.P., Kosek, M., Caulfield, L.E. Infant feeding practices in the Peruvian Amazon: implications for programs to improve feeding. Pan Amer Salud, 2014. 36(3): 150-157.

Lee, G.O., Pan, W.P., Yori, P.P., Olortegui, M.P., Tilley, K., Gregory, M., Oberhelman, R., Burga, R., Banda Chavez, C., Kosek, M. Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Campylobacter Infections Associated with Reduced Growth in Peruvian Children. PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2013; 7(1): e2036.