Aeree Sohn has been a professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Sahmyook University in Seoul, Korea since 2001. Prof. Sohn received her doctoral degree in Public Health at the University of Illinois in the USA. She has been conducting alcohol culture and health behavior studies and was the 8th president of the Korean Society of Alcohol and Health Behavior Research. Examples of her work include studies on the characteristics of drinking culture and policies for the improvement of drinking availability, funded by the Ministry of Health. Aeree conducts research in the fields of quantitative social research, epidemiology, and addiction medicine.