Dina A. R. Israel
Dina A. R. Israel
Senior Associate
Youth Development, Criminal Justice, and Employment

Israel is one of MDRC’s senior field liaisons and technical assistance team members, as well as a project director. For nearly two decades, she has worked side by side with program staff members across the human-services system: nonprofit organizations that serve families, government agencies providing public benefits, child support offices, public health offices, youth employment training programs, and programs that serve participants with health problems and other barriers to employment. While rigorous research is often what brings her together with practitioners, in practice her efforts help partners strengthen program implementation continuously. She helps them to reflect on the knowledge they gain from the work, use their data constructively, and listen to participant and staff voices. She is an affiliate of MDRC’s Center for Applied Behavioral Science and trained in human-centered design approaches. Israel has worked on several federally sponsored demonstrations of new programs and policies, as well as evaluations of existing services. She has a BA from Oberlin College and a master’s in public policy from the University of Chicago’s Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy.

Products

Brief

Identifying Core Components in Fatherhood Programs Through a Multimethod Analysis Approach

Brief

A Roundup of Findings from the Building Bridges and Bonds Study

Issue Focus

Lessons from the Pandemic Year for the Future

Issue Focus

Looking Ahead to “In Practice” Blog Posts in 2020

Issue Focus

Tips to Keep Participants Coming Back for More

Issue Focus

GIFs and Memes as Tools for Engagement

Brief

The Building Bridges and Bonds (B3) Study

Report

Impacts on Health and Employment at Twelve Months

Other Publications

Michalopoulos, Charles, David Wittenburg, Dina A. R. Israel, and Anne Warren. 2012. “The Effect of Health Care Benefits on Health Care Use and Health: A Randomized Trial for Disability Insurance Beneficiaries.” Medical Care 50, 9: 764-771.