Bekka Lee is a Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Bekka is also the Director of the Community Engagement Program at Harvard Catalyst providing capacity building on mixed methods, implementation science, and community-engaged research to faculty, staff, students, and community partners. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating community-based interventions that translate into real world policy and environmental change, focusing in particular on investigating the contextual factors that impact effective implementation and promote health equity. She has spent 15 years working at the Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity, where she conducts research and evaluation with partners at the Boston Public Health Commission, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and YMCA. Bekka teaches courses in implementation science, program planning, and evaluation and co-directs the Leaders in Health community training program at the Harvard Chan School. Bekka is co-director of the Administrative Core and is leading a pilot study on evidence-based cancer prevention interventions in community health centers across Massachusetts.
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