Liccardo Pacula

Rosalie

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Ph.D. holds the Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Health Policy, Economics & Law in the Health Policy and Management (HPM) Department at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, where she is also currently serving as Acting Chair of the HPM Department.  She is a trained health economist that has been engaged in research on the market for addictive substances and policy responses to these markets for more than thirty years. Dr. Pacula co-Chairs the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in addition to co-directing the RAND-USC Schaeffer Opioid Policy Tools and Information Center of Excellence (OPTIC), a P50 Research Center funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that seeks to increase the pace of scientific research that identifies cost-effective strategies for reducing the harms caused by the opioid crisis.  She was a recent committee member of the NASEM group producing the 2024 Consensus Study Report entitled Cannabis Policy Impacts on Public Health and Health Equity.