Dr. Rice is an Associate Professor of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences, Director and PI of the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE) at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH), and a Co-Director within the Center to Advance Behavioral Health among Pregnant/Postpartum Women (CORAL) at Morehouse School of Medicine and Emory. Dr. Rice contributes expertise in participatory reproductive and maternal health services and policy research to her portfolio of research into social and structural factors that impede or enable reproductive and maternal health outcomes, care delivery, and scholarship, often in partnership with collaborators most proximal to social, systems and policy change. She is a public-facing scholar, who has discussed this work in expert witness testimony and in the media. Dr. Rice was awarded an inaugural Emory RSPH Faculty Leadership Award in 2023 as well as the Outstanding Young Professional Award by the American Public Health Association Sexual and Reproductive Health Section in 2019. Dr. Rice completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Health degree in Health Policy and Management at Emory, and a Doctor of Public Health degree in Health Care Organization and Policy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also completed HRSA Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence -funded Doctoral Traineeship, and an AHRQ T32-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Services, Outcomes and Effectiveness Research.