Aldrie Henry-Lee, Ph.D.

Dr. Henry-Lee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus). Dr. Henry-Lee is also Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mona. She is a sociologist who has conducted research and published in the areas of poverty and health. She has been involved in research in the areas of health, social protection and poverty in the Caribbean. Her work has included the examination of poverty in St. Lucia, Grenada, Jamaica and Belize.  She has focused on the issues of the measurement of poverty and the evaluation of social protection programmes. Her research has been funded by many international agencies including: UNDP, UNICEF, USAID, PAHO, DFID and FHI. She has utilized both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in her research.  In spite of her fascination with research, her first love is teaching and she has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Among the courses that Dr. Henry-Lee currently teaches at the graduate level are Social Inequality, Inequity and Marginalization (SA63D), Social Investment in Children (SA60A) and Deviance, Conflict and Social Management (SA63E).

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