Public Biography
Dr. Eva K. Lee is Director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Health Security at the Data and Analytics Innovation Institute, established with support from the National Science Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation, and the Department of Homeland Security. The center’s mission spans biomedicine, public health, and defense—advancing domains from fundamental science to translational implementation; enabling intelligent, personalized, high-quality, and cost-effective healthcare delivery; and strengthening disaster medicine, public health preparedness, and homeland infrastructure protection.
Dr. Lee also serves as Senior Health Scientist for the American Medical Association and Senior Data Scientist for the NIH RCMI Coordinating Center at Morehouse School of Medicine. Previously, she held the Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Endowed Chair and Professorship in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. She was also a Distinguished Scholar in Health Systems at Emory University School of Medicine. Her prior appointments include Senior Health Systems Engineer and Professor for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Co-Director of the Center for Health Organization Transformation.
Dr. Lee’s interdisciplinary research integrates operations research, systems engineering, data science, and machine learning to advance medical science, improve healthcare delivery, public health and emergency preparedness, and national security. She has developed pioneering analytical and computational frameworks for predictive modeling, resource optimization, and decision support in healthcare and public health. Her translational work has significantly advanced personalized medicine, disaster response, vaccine design, and defense readiness. She has collaborated extensively with federal agencies including the CDC, NIH, DTRA, DHS, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, developing operational strategies and computational tools that have been deployed nationally and internationally.
She serves as Principal Investigator for an interoperable, web-based information exchange and decision-support platform for mass dispensing, emergency response, and casualty mitigation. This system integrates epidemiological modeling with behavioral and logistics analytics to improve operational efficiency and coordination, and is currently used by over 14,000 public health sites across the U.S.
Dr. Lee’s work has produced major advances in personalized disease management, vaccine immunity prediction, and bioterrorism response, and has informed national strategies for pandemic defense and critical infrastructure protection. She has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, 50 government and state reports, and holds patents for innovative medical systems and devices.
Recognized for both scientific innovation and real-world impact, Dr. Lee has received numerous honors including the INFORMS Prize, Franz Edelman Award, Daniel H. Wagner Prize, and the Innovative Applications in Analytics Award. She is an INFORMS Fellow and an elected member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows, the first industrial and systems engineer to receive this distinction.
Her service includes membership on national advisory and review panels for NAE/NAS/IOM, NRC, NBSB, and DTRA. From 2015–2018, she served on the National Preparedness and Response Science Board, advising the President and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on public health and medical preparedness policy.
Dr. Lee also serves as Senior Health Scientist for the American Medical Association and Senior Data Scientist for the NIH RCMI Coordinating Center at Morehouse School of Medicine. Previously, she held the Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Endowed Chair and Professorship in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. She was also a Distinguished Scholar in Health Systems at Emory University School of Medicine. Her prior appointments include Senior Health Systems Engineer and Professor for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Co-Director of the Center for Health Organization Transformation.
Dr. Lee’s interdisciplinary research integrates operations research, systems engineering, data science, and machine learning to advance medical science, improve healthcare delivery, public health and emergency preparedness, and national security. She has developed pioneering analytical and computational frameworks for predictive modeling, resource optimization, and decision support in healthcare and public health. Her translational work has significantly advanced personalized medicine, disaster response, vaccine design, and defense readiness. She has collaborated extensively with federal agencies including the CDC, NIH, DTRA, DHS, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, developing operational strategies and computational tools that have been deployed nationally and internationally.
She serves as Principal Investigator for an interoperable, web-based information exchange and decision-support platform for mass dispensing, emergency response, and casualty mitigation. This system integrates epidemiological modeling with behavioral and logistics analytics to improve operational efficiency and coordination, and is currently used by over 14,000 public health sites across the U.S.
Dr. Lee’s work has produced major advances in personalized disease management, vaccine immunity prediction, and bioterrorism response, and has informed national strategies for pandemic defense and critical infrastructure protection. She has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, 50 government and state reports, and holds patents for innovative medical systems and devices.
Recognized for both scientific innovation and real-world impact, Dr. Lee has received numerous honors including the INFORMS Prize, Franz Edelman Award, Daniel H. Wagner Prize, and the Innovative Applications in Analytics Award. She is an INFORMS Fellow and an elected member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows, the first industrial and systems engineer to receive this distinction.
Her service includes membership on national advisory and review panels for NAE/NAS/IOM, NRC, NBSB, and DTRA. From 2015–2018, she served on the National Preparedness and Response Science Board, advising the President and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on public health and medical preparedness policy.
Affiliations
Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA)
FAMIA stands for “Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association” and it recognizes the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice – be that in a clinical setting, a public or population health capacity, or as a clinical researcher.
Year Inducted
2026