Rate My Professor Eunice Lee

Dr. Eunlye (Eunice) Lee is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Cleveland State University’s College of Health. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Case Western Reserve University in 2016, a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009, an additional M.S.W. from Chongshin University in Seoul, South Korea in 2007, and a B.A. in Theology from Chongshin University in 1995. Prior to her appointment at Cleveland State University, Dr. Lee served as an HRSA-funded T32 postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She teaches courses such as History and Philosophy of Social Work and Social Welfare, Social Welfare Policy and Analysis (SWK 502), Fundamentals of Research (SWK 509), and Human Behavior in the Social Environment across the Life Course (SWK 510).

Dr. Lee’s research centers on social and environmental determinants that influence the health and well-being of children from disadvantaged families. Over the past twelve years, she has contributed to federally funded projects employing community-engaged research, community/university partnerships, transdisciplinary approaches, dissemination and implementation science, and mixed-methods research to promote health equity. Her current investigations focus on identifying resilience profiles among children with histories of adverse childhood experiences and understanding how these profiles affect health and developmental outcomes in adolescence, with the goal of informing interventions, policies, and practices to mitigate negative outcomes. Key publications include “Socioecological Predictors of Child Flourishing and Family Resilience Status Among Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2026) and “Linking policy and practice: exploring professionals’ knowledge, barriers, and experience reporting ‘The Link’ between interpersonal violence and animal abuse” in Palladium: Animal Law and Welfare (2025). She has also presented on AI considerations for social work in healthcare (2026) and housing instability’s links to child welfare (2025). As co-investigator, she participates in the “Survive and Thrive: Achieving Birth Equity through a Community Perinatal Support Pipeline” project funded by the Ohio Department of Higher Education-Third Frontier (2023–present) and provides peer review services for scholarly journals.