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Biography

Dorothy P. Rice is a renowned expert in health statistics specializing in cost-of-illness studies. Rice served as an expert witness in the class-action suit against the major tobacco companies filed by Mississippi State Attorney General Michael C. Moore to recover compensation for state Medicaid costs for the treatment of tobacco-related illnesses. Rice is co-author with Wendy Max, Adjunct Professor of Medical Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for Health & Aging at UCSF, of The Cost of Smoking in California (1995), and a number of other articles on the costs of tobacco-related illnesses. She was also a principal investigator in two projects funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The first, "The Cost of Smoking in the United States" (9/1/95-present), co-sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was to develop a model to estimate the cost of smoking including direct and indirect costs, control for other factors, and apply the model to the various states. The second project, "Public Economic Costs of the Health Effects of Smoking" (1/1/96-12/31/98) provides technical assistance to staffs at State Health Departments and State Attorneys General offices on the economic costs of the health effects of smoking.

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