Dina Eliezer, Ph.D.
Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses
Strategy, Forces, and Resources Division
Dr. Dina Eliezer is a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. She is a social and personality psychologist with expertise in program evaluation and survey, experimental, and qualitative methods. She joined IDA’s Strategies, Forces and Resources Division in 2018 and co-leads the Talent Management, Readiness, and Resilience portfolio. Her research focuses on force resiliency, command climate, military leadership, prevention, and capacity-building for monitoring and evaluation in the military. Previously, Dina worked at Booz Allen Hamilton, providing research support to the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, Defense Human Resources Activity. Dr. Eliezer received her doctorate in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.
Selected Publications:
Eliezer, Dina et al. 2021. Understanding and Assessing Unit Cohesion at Multiple Organizational Levels.IDA Paper P-20508.
Eliezer, Dina, Williams, Ashlie M., Cotting, Dave I., Reutter, Heidi C. and Dubin, Rachel D. 2021.National Guard Suicide Prevention and Resilience Innovation Framework.IDA Paper P-22668.
Guggisberg, Michael R., Bishop, James M. and Eliezer, Dina. 2021. Explaining Suicide Risk in the Army National Guard by Age, Sex, and Geography.IDA Paper NS P-21540.
Eliezer, Dina et al. 2020.Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Key Programs Supporting Military Families.IDA Paper NS P-14241.
Eliezer, Dina, Aubrey J. Hilbert, Lisa H. Davis, Kimberly Hylton, William Xav Klauberg, Maia M. Hurley, Zachary J. Gitlin, Karmon D. Dyches, and Nathan W. Galbreath. (2019).Sexual Assault Experiences Vary for Active Duty Military Women Depending on their Relationship to the Perpetrator. Journal of Family Violence: 1-14.
Eliezer, Dina, Mitchell, Theresa K. and Abbe, Allison. (2019).Development Beyond the Joint Qualification System: An Overview. Joint Forces Quarterly: 95.