Ketra Rice

Ketra Rice is a part-time Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Spelman College since 2018 and a full-time Health Economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She teaches Principles of Microeconomics (SECO 242), Economics of Poverty (SECO 337), and Urban Economics (SECO 369) at Spelman while conducting economic analyses of injury prevention programs at CDC.

Her educational background includes:

• Ph.D. and M.S. from The Ohio State University
• M.P.H. from the University of Florida
• M.B.A. and B.S. from Alabama A&M University

Dr. Rice's research integrates health economics with advanced computational methods, focusing on economic burden modeling of injury and violence, agent-based simulations of risk factors, and equity-centered program evaluations. Her work examines place-based health disparities through econometric and machine learning approaches to inform public health funding allocation and intervention strategies.