Joie Acosta
Login to view DISC.Joie Acosta, Ph. D. , is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND Corporation with over 20 years of experience. A community and cultural psychologist, she specializes in health promotion, community resilience, and implementation science. She earned her Ph. D. in community and cultural psychology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Outside of her direct research, she shows a keen interest in powerful storytelling and its ability to convey messages of resilience, highlighted by her support for impactful documentary films. She is focused on translating research into actionable insights for communities and policymakers.
She was recently selected to be a RAND Global Scholar, a program focused on getting research "off the shelf" and into the hands of those who can use it.
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