Sora Lee is a lecturer in aging at the La Trobe University. Before she came to ANU to do her PhD thesis on health equity among older population, she worked at Ewha Womans University, Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy & Management.

At La Trobe, she is leading a 2-year research project on Hidden Workers in Ageing Population using intersectionality. The intersectional experiences of ageing population reflect the cumulative ways that discrimination and disadvantage are experienced based on intersecting characteristics such as age, gender, sexual orientation, Indigenous status, long-term health conditions and ethnicity. The project will examine how a person’s social identities may interact with employment and health in their later working lives.

She is also a part of Public Health Palliative Care Unit, where she examines the effectiveness of the the Healthy End of Life Program (HELP), a digital health promotion practice and evaluation framework designed to improve social capital in the end of life. She is keen to provide evidence-informed public health strategies to understand how population-based public health palliative care practice might be enhanced and implemented in varied settings with diverse populations.

Death literacy index is also her research topic of interest. Community death literacy is deeply connected with social networks and social capital in end of life care. Interventions to enhance community death literacy is an effective way to practice public health approach to palliative care.