Faculty Member Since 2018 and is a Lecturer for Economics.
Dr. Ketra Rice is a part-time Instructor in the Department of Economics and full-time Health Economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Rice conducts program cost analyses of local and state injury prevention programs, models the economic burden of injury and violence, and leads analyses to examine risk and protective factors for injury and violence using agent-based modeling, machine learning, and econometric methods. Her research interests span health economics, policy analysis, policy and program evaluation, place-based disparities, and health equity. Dr. Rice has authored and co-authored several papers related to the burden of injury, equity in public health funding, health and economic evaluation of interventions, and place-based disparities in health outcomes.
Ph.D., MS, The Ohio State University
MPH, University of Florida
MBA, BS, Alabama A&M University
SECO 242 Principles of Microeconomics
SECO 337 Economics of Poverty
SECO 369 Urban Economics
