Gail Lee

Adjunct Professor

Part-Time Faculty

Biography

Gail Lee has 30 years of experience in healthcare, environmental health and safety in public, non-profit, and private industries.  Gail provides thoughtful leadership, creativity, and lends an experienced perspective on sustainability including reporting of carbon emissions, energy efficiency, and toxics and waste reduction at UCSF and UCSF Health.  Gail’s particular interest lies in helping health care institutions, known for their 24/7 operations, energy usage and waste-generating activities, to reduce their environmental impact. She worked with construction project LEED teams to ensure consistency, sharing of lead credits across multiple projects and established two master site certifications. She team-taught a UC-wide LEED Green Associate Class to Capital Programs staff and she served on the Advisory Committee of the new UCSF NIEHS-funded EaRTH Center to accelerate the pace of preventing environmental exposure that affects reproduction and development. Gail now serves on the Executive Board of Directors for non-profit, Sustainable San Mateo County, and on the Resilient San Bruno Community Team at the City of San Bruno. 

Expertise

  • Green buildings and LEED certification
  • Carbon emissions reporting
  • Environmentally preferable purchasing
  • Toxics reduction 
  • Waste reduction, recycling

Research Areas

  • Sustainability in higher rducation
  • Sustainability in healthcare

Education

  • University of San Francisco, MS Environmental Management, 1993
  • UC Berkeley, BS in Nutrition, 1982

Prior Experience

  • Sustainability Director, UC San Francisco (2010-2025)
  • Environmental Health & Safety Director, Safety Officer, Mills Peninsula Health Services (2000-2009)
  • Registered Environmental Health Specialist/Hazardous Materials Specialist 4, County of San Mateo (1990-2000)

Selected Publications