Vanessa Acosta

Vanessa Acosta, MPH, currently serves as the Strategic Investments Program Manager II at L.A. Care Health Plan, where responsibilities include programmatic leadership. Previously, Vanessa held a position as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and was a Research Assistant at the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. Vanessa's experience also includes an internship at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, administrative coordination at Boston Children's Hospital, and community coordination for San Francisco Health Plan, focusing on high-risk pediatric populations. Vanessa earned a Master of Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley.