Whitney  Rice

Whitney S. Rice, DrPH, MPH is a Rollins Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH), Director and Principal Investigator of the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), and a Center to Advance Reproductive Justice and Behavioral Health among Black Pregnant/Postpartum Women and Birthing People (CORAL) Research Core and Training Core MPI, where she contributes expertise in participatory and justice-oriented reproductive health policy and services research, research leadership and research training and mentorship. Her research program is devoted to investigating social and structural factors that impede or enable equity in sexual and reproductive health outcomes, care delivery, and scholarship, in which she utilizes quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, and stakeholder-engaged approaches to produce and translate research to key program- and policy-relevant audiences proximal to social and structural change. In recognition of these efforts, she was awarded the 2019 Outstanding Young Professional Award by the American Public Health Association Sexual and Reproductive Health Section, an inaugural RSPH Faculty Leadership Award in 2023, and the BSHES Distinguished Teaching Award in 2024.