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Moonju Lee, PhD, RN, MSN

Associate Professor/Clinical

Moonju Lee, Ph.D., RN, is an Assistant Professor/Clinical at the UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing with 18 years of clinical experience in the oncology, bone marrow transplant, and neonatal intensive units. Her research and teaching areas focus on health disparities, health literacy, healthcare service utilization, community engagement, and capacity building among all underserved populations, including Hispanics, refugees, and Korean immigrants. 

As an undergraduate and graduate faculty, she has taught Research and Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), Population focused Health, Health Assessment, and Advanced Nursing Seminar, and worked with the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student as the committee chair. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she volunteered from the drive-through testing site to the vaccine clinics, presented the COVID-19 Pandemic issues to the national and international organizations, and kept sharing up-to-date COVID-19 and vaccine information with the socially and linguistically isolated underserved populations through the media and community partners. 

She has served the several University Committees and the Mays Cancer Center Community Engagement Advisory Council as a member. Currently, Dr. Lee has leadership roles at the professional health organizations in the American Public Health Association (APHA), Caucus of Refugee and Immigrant Health, and the Global Korean Nursing Foundation (GKNF)-USA. 

Since 2016, she has been deeply involved in the San Antonio Korean American community as a Founder of the Korean American Health School, Community Advisory Board member, and President of the San Antonio Korean American Scholarship Foundation. In 2019, she was appointed as the Oversea Council Member and Policy Committee Chair of the US-Houston Chapter of the National Unification Advisory Council of the Republic of Korea. 

Dr. Lee has received several awards, including:

  • Center for Global Health Scholar, University of Virginia (2003)
  • Carol Lindeman Award, Western Institute of Nursing (2015)
  • Best 25 Nurses of South Central Texas, San Antonio Nursing Consortium (2021)
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs Award, Republic of Korea (2021)