Tae-Jin Lee is a professor of health economics at Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University (SNU).
His research area includes economic analysis of health care systems, especially focusing on health financing and financial protection, as well as economic evaluation of various interventions in health care sector.
He has served as an advisor to the Korean government in health policy, and was a member of Pharmaceutical Benefit Advisory Committee for the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare.
He holds a PhD in health services management from the University of Manchester in the U.K. He studied economics and public health at SNU for the first degree and a master’s degree, respectively. He was a Takemi Fellow in International Health at Harvard School of Public Health twice in 2006-2007 and 2013-2014, and a Visiting Fellow at St. Edmunds College, Cambridge University in 2018.