Lee A. Crandall, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Public Health Sciences, Clemson University 

Lee Crandall is a medical sociologist, health services researcher, and social epidemiologist who was trained as a United States Public Health Service Fellow at Purdue University’s Health Services Research and Training Program.  He retired from Clemson University in 2019 after serving as Chair of Clemson’s Department of Public Health Sciences from 2007 to 2014.  Prior to coming to Clemson, he was a faculty member in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine at the University of Florida (1976-1994), served as Head of the Department of Community Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1994-1999 and served as Associate Chair in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (2000 -2007).  

His research has focused on issues of access to and quality of health and disability services, particularly for rural and minority populations, on issues at the interface of health policy and bioethics (including the insurance implications of predictive genetic testing) and more recently on the epidemiology and prevention of substance use and related behavioral health issues.  He has published approximately 100 articles and book chapters and currently is continuing his research on substance abuse epidemiology as a consultant to the Comprehensive Drug Research Center at the University of Miami and the Monroe County Coalition.