
Addiction Policy and Health Economics Co-Leader / Sol Price School of Public Policy
BIO
Dr. Rosalie Liccardo Pacula serves on the IAS Steering Committee & is a Co-Leader for the IAS Addiction Policy & Health Economics research group/committee alongside IAS Member, Dr. Sarah Axeen. This group of faculty members focuses on research, publications, and advocacy to support evidence-based policy development.
Dr. Liccardo Pacula holds the Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Health Policy, Economics & Law at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at USC and is a Senior Fellow with the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. She Co-Directs the RAND-USC Schaeffer Opioid Policy Tools & Information Center of Excellence (OPTIC) and leads numerous NIH-funded studies on the impact of laws on the supply, demand, and access to treatment for intoxicating substances. Previously, she spent 21 years at the RAND Corporation, including 15 years as co-director of RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center, working on drug policy studies for various U.S. and international organizations. She has served on advisory groups for NIDA (2017), SAMHSA (2020-present), the WHO (December 2019-2020), the National Academy of Sciences (2021 – present), and the CDC (2021-present). She is the current President of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (2019-present). Dr. Pacula graduated from Santa Clara University and received her doctorate in economics from Duke University.
EMAIL: rmp_302@usc.edu