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(In Press) Whanhee Lee, Daeun Seo (co-first), Woojae Myung, Kristi Prifti, Cinoo Kang, Hyemin Jang, Chaerin Park, Michelle L. Bell, and Ho Kim; “Association of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollution with Chronic Sleep Deprivation in Adults from 141 Urban Communities in South Korea: A Community-level Longitudinal Study, 2008‒2016.”, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences.

(In Press) Whanhee Lee, Moonjung Choi (co-first), Michelle L. Bell, Cinoo Kang, Jeongju Jang, Insung Song, Yong-wook Kim, Kristie Ebi, and Ho Kim; “Effects of Urbanisation on Vulnerability to Heat-related Mortality in Urban and Rural Areas in South Korea: A Nationwide District-level Time-Series Study.”, International Journal of Epidemiology.

(In Press) Lina Madaniyazi, Ben Armstrong, Yeonseung Chung, … MCC Collaborators, Whanhee Lee, …, Masahiro Hashizume; “Seasonal variation in mortality and the role of temperature: a multi-country multi-city study.”, International Journal of Epidemiology.

(In Press) Qi Zhao, Yuming Guo, MCC collaborators, Whanhee Lee, …, Shanshan Li; “Global, regional and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: A three-stage modelling study.”, The Lancet Planetary Health.

Ana M Vicedo-Cabrera, N. Scovronick, MCC collaborators, Whanhee Lee, …, Antonio Gasparrini; “The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change.”, Nature Climate Change. (2021.05)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01058-x

Whanhee Lee, Honghyok Kim, Hayon Michelle Choi, Seulkee Heo, Kelvin C. Fong, Jooyeon Yang, Chaerin Park, Ho Kim, and Michelle L. Bell; “Urban Environments and COVID-19 in three Eastern States of the United States.”, Science of the Total Environment. (2021.03)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721014029

Kai Chen, Susanne Breitner, MCC collaborators, Whanhee Lee, ..., and Alexandra Schneider; “Ambient Carbon Monoxide and Daily Mortality: A Global Time-Series Study in 337 cities.”, The Lancet Planetary Health. (2021.04)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00026-7/fulltext

Suji Lee, Whanhee Lee, Eunil Lee, Myung Ho Jeong, Seung-Woon Rha, Chong-Jin Kim, Shung Chull Chae, Hyo-Soo Kim, Hyeon-Cheol Gwon, Ho Kim; “Effects of Asian dust-derived particulate matter on ST-elevation myocardial infarction: retrospective, time series study.”, BMC Public Health. (2021.01)

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-020-10067-y

Whanhee Lee, Kristie Ebi, Yoonhee Kim, Masahiro Hashizume, Yasushi Honda, Hashimoto Hideki, Hayon Choi, Moonjung Choi, and Ho Kim; “Heat-mortality risk and the population concentration of metropolitan areas in Japan: a nationwide time-series study.”, International Journal of Epidemiology. (2020.12)

https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ije/dyaa245/6042786?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Whanhee Lee, Yoonhee Kim, Francesco Sera, MCC collaborators, Michelle L. Bell, and Ho Kim; “Projections of excess mortality related to diurnal temperature range under climate change scenarios: A multi-country study”, The Lancet Planetary Health. (2020.11)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30222-9/fulltext

Jeongju Jang, Whanhee Lee (co-first), Munjeong Choi, Cinoo Kang, and Ho Kim; “Roles of urban heat anomaly and land-use/land-cover on the heat-related mortality in the national capital region of South Korea: A multi-districts time-series study”, Environment International. (2020.12)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020320821

Cinoo Kang, Chaerin Park, Whanhee Lee, Nazife Pehlivan, Munjeong Choi, Jeongju Jang, and Ho Kim; “Heatwave-Related Mortality Risk and the Risk-Based Definition of Heat Wave in South Korea: A Nationwide Time-Series Study for 2011–2017”, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. (2020.08)

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/16/5720

Whanhee Lee, Seung-sik Hwang, Honghyok Kim, Hayon Michelle Choi, Yoonhee Kim, Michelle L. Bell, Ho Kim et al.; “COVID-19 in South Korea: epidemiological and spatiotemporal patterns of the spread and the role of aggressive diagnostic tests in the early phase”, International Journal of Epidemiology. (2020.08)

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/4/1106/5880756

Yongwook Kim, Whanhee Lee (co-first), Ho Kim et al; “Social isolation and vulnerability to heatwave-related mortality in the urban elderly population: a time-series multi-community study in Korea”, Environment International. (2020.09)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020318237

Whanhee Lee, Ho Kim et al.; “Synergic effect between high temperature and air pollution on mortality in Northeast Asia”, Environmental research. (2019.11)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935119305328?via%3Dihub

Whanhee Lee, Yeonseung Chung, Ho Kim et al.; “The Interactive Effect of Diurnal Temperature Range and Temperature on Mortality in 57 communities in Northeast Asia; a multi-country study”, Epidemiology. (2019.07)

https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Abstract/2019/07001/Interactive_Effect_of_Diurnal_Temperature_Range.15.aspx

Suji Lee, Whanhee Lee, Ho Kim et al.; “Short-term PM2.5 exposure and emergency hospital admissions for mental disease”, Environmental Research. (2019.01)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935118301415

Whanhee Lee, Yoonhee Kim, Ho Kim et al.; “Association between diurnal temperature range and mortality modified by temperature in Japan, 1972–2015: Investigation of spatial and temporal patterns for 12 cause-specific deaths”, Environment International. (2018.10)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018305221

Whanhee Lee, Hayon Michelle Choi, Dahye Kim, Ho Kim et al.; “Temporal changes in mortality impacts of heat wave and cold spell in Korea and Japan”, Environment International. (2018.07)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412017322882

Suji Lee, Whanhee Lee, Woojae Myung, E Jin Kim, Ho Kim; “Mental disease-related emergency admissions attributable to hot temperatures”, Science of The Total Environment. (2018.03)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969717329789?via%3Dihub

Whanhee Lee, Hayon Michelle Choi, Dahye Kim, Yasushi Honda, Yue-Liang Leon Guo, Ho Kim; “Temporal changes in mortality attributed to heat extremes for 57 cities in Northeast Asia”, Science of The Total Environment. (2018.03)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969717329765

Whanhee Lee, Michelle L. Bell, the MCC collaborators, Ho Kim et al; “Mortality burden of diurnal temperature range and its temporal changes: A multi-country study”, Environment International. (2018.01)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412017313570

Whanhee Lee, Ho Kim, Sunghee Hwang, Antonella Zanobetti, Joel Schwartz, Yeonseung Chung; “Monte Carlo estimation for the minimum mortality temperature in temperature-mortality association study”, BMC Medical Research Methodology. (2017.09)

https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-017-0412-7

Whanhee Lee, Younhee Lim, Ho Kim et al.; “An Investigation on Attributes of Ambien Temperature and Diurnal Temperature Range on Mortality in Five East-Asian Countries”, Scientific Reports. (2017.08)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-10433-8

Whanhee Lee, Sunghee Hwang, Hayoung Choi, Ho Kim; “The association between smoking or passive smoking and cardiovascular diseases using a Bayesian hierarchical model: based on the 2008-2013 Korea Community Health Survey”, Epidemiology and Health. (2017.07)

https://www.e-epih.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.4178/epih.e2017026

Whanhee Lee, Jiyoung Choo, Jiyoung Son, Ho Kim; “Association between long-term exposure to air pollutants and prevalence of cardiovascular disease in 108 South Korean communities in 2008-2010: A cross-sectional study”, Science of Total Environment. (2016.09)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969716305885

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