Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, PhD, MPH, is an applied health services researcher with methodological expertise in qualitative, survey, and mixed methods. Her research focuses on children and families, health, the intersections of race/ethnicity and nativity, and the structural and policy factors underpinning these relationships. In particular, her expertise is in health inequities experienced by families with very young children and immigrant families and their children. While her core expertise is in access to basic needs (like food, housing, or energy security) health inequities and social policy, she also has interest in the ways environment (neighborhood characteristics, climate/exposures, built environment) are influenced by policy and how in turn all these influence child and family health, health care utilization, and economic well-being. Dr. Ettinger de Cuba holds co-appointments in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health and in the Department of Pediatrics at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. In addition, she proudly serves as Executive Director of Children’s HealthWatch, headquartered at Boston Medical Center (www.childrenshealthwatch.org). She is part of the Inaugural cohort of faculty affiliates of the Center for Antiracist Research.
Dr. Ettinger de Cuba served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia focused on small-scale agriculture and nutrition and hygiene education, especially for mothers and children. She has worked for many years in a variety of program delivery, policy, and advocacy roles. Dr. Ettinger de Cuba received her BA from the University of Michigan in German Language and Literature and her MPH in International Health and PhD in Health Services Research from Boston University School of Public Health.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility
I approach my work and activism with an antiracist, social justice lens. My research focuses on improving social and health policy to support optimal health and well-being for children and families, particularly focused on those with low incomes and those who have been systematically marginalized due to disinvestment in their communities, economic factors, and/or structural racism and xenophobia. I am especially interested in immigrant families and in intersectional identities – examining how nativity and race/ethnicity relate to both health outcomes and the ways in which policy is designed to implicitly or explicitly include or exclude certain groups.
Examples of my research shaped by issues of equity and inclusion include: identifying the impact on young children of immigrant’s healthcare utilization of President Trump’s election and a leaked draft of sweeping changes to immigration and public assistance laws (public charge), examining how benefit program rules create “cliff effects” in public assistance programs, where increases in income can trigger benefit reductions or cut-offs that leave families experiencing more, not less, hardship; examining healthcare and basic needs access by both parental nativity and race/ethnicity and associated negative child health outcomes and family economic hardship; describing the daily experiences of immigrant mothers navigating healthcare in family life and the ways that the larger social context shapes their ability to access healthcare and other needed supports; and tracking social policy changes and the ways they can help or hurt children and their families, particularly immigrants and families of color. I am deeply dedicated to not only research but actively advocating for inclusive health and social policies at all levels that advance racial equity in order to remove barriers and quell the stigma and fear that have blocked so many families and children from accessing the healthcare and supports they need to reach their potential. Over the long term, I am committed to demonstrating opportunities and new approaches to policy that support family flourishing for all families, especially families of color and those with immigrant members.
Over the past several years - starting well before the pandemic, I led my team through a multi-year racial equity effort to transform ourselves and our work. We began first by working with professional trainers over more than 6 months to educate ourselves and have both small and large group conversation and reflection focused on understanding the many levels of racism and the ways that our varying positionality influenced our experience of it. From there, we began to work to put our new understanding into action through examining, adjusting, and changing our approach to everything from procurement and budgets to personnel to data collection and research agenda-setting. In that time, my partner in this work has become our Engagement, Equity & Inclusion Associate – now a permanent position. Together we formed Advancing Equity Teams that draw their membership from all network levels – research assistants to Principal Investigators. These teams have worked with us to review our processes and make recommendations for change. For example, we shifted our focus to center racial equity in our research questions. My team’s work has since been funded twice by the Center for Antiracist Research for projects specifically examining de jure and de facto exclusions in COVID relief policy and their associations with family health and economic hardship, especially among families of color and immigrants. Our team has implemented many changes and identified more that are needed. Our professional and personal evolutions continue to be a work in progress, with much to celebrate but more to come.
This work requires both a great deal of introspection and also confronting hard truths about what I personally want to be and do and where my explicit and implicit biases and White privilege have led me to fall short. But in realizing this, I have also felt a renewal of energy and passion for the work I do and for taking responsibility for my role personally and professionally in advancing an antiracist future. I have continued to seek out opportunities both formal and informal to engage, including joining a training series with The Racial Equity Learning Community (RELC), part of Trinity Boston Connects. I have been a member of my town’s Diversity Task Group for the last several years, which works on local issues of racial justice and all kinds of diversity and inclusion. As an SPH faculty member, I look forward to getting actively involved in school diversity and inclusion efforts. I approach the work with humility knowing that I must continue to learn and be open so that I can ensure my interactions and my work advance equity and inclusion.
As a child of immigrants myself, I have some sense of what it feels like to be an outsider with a life at home that does not culturally match that of peers. Mentorship can make all the difference – knowing that someone else gets that it is hard and exhausting to be an outsider. I would like to be supportive to others making their way in Boston and the US and am interested in mentoring students formally or informally, including those who are first-generation graduate students and/or international students. I hope to use my role to help support public health as a career option and to spark the interest of the next generation of equity researchers and activists. As a leader, I maintain an open-door (virtual and actual) policy with colleagues, aiming to create a safe space to discuss challenges of all kinds, including micro-and macro-aggressions. This kind of support is essential for thriving personally and professionally. I seek to provide that support for students and colleagues, as well.
Research Associate Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Pediatrics
Research Associate Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Community Health Sciences
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Developing a spatially-Resolved, Multidimensional Dataset in the Children's HealthWatch Multisite Cohort to Address Children's Climate and Environmental Justice12/01/2023 - 11/30/2026 (Subcontract PI)
New York University, dba NYU Grossman School of Medicine NIH NIEHS5P2CES033423-03
BMC Career Mobility Pathways and Community Partnerships09/01/2022 - 12/31/2024 (Subcontract PI)
Boston Medical Center Corporation Wagner Foundation
National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility06/01/2023 - 09/29/2024 (Subcontract PI)
University of Wisconsin, Madison HHS SAMHSA
Mitigating cliff effects in future basic income policies for families with children08/01/2023 - 07/31/2024 (Subcontract PI)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute The Dayton Fdn
Early Identification of Rising Risk Families and Parent Guided Team Based Care to Prevent and Mitigate Toxic Street05/01/2020 - 04/30/2023 (Subcontract PI)
Boston Medical Center Corporation JPB Foundation
Support for leveraging health research and pediatric perspectives to advance a permanently expanded and fully inclusive, monthly Child Tax Credit01/01/2022 - 12/31/2024 (PI)
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Boston Medical Center - Support to Children's HealthWatch10/15/2021 - 10/14/2022 (PI)
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
COVID relief and long-term policy change priorities for families with children01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021 (PI)
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Impact of Pending Budget Cuts on the Health & Development of Young Children01/01/2020 - 12/31/2020 (Multi-PI)
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Stephanie A. Ettinger de Cuba, PhDAnnie E. Casey Foundation
Advocacy to increase the state EITC in Massachusetts01/01/2020 - 12/31/2020 (PI)
EITC Funders Network
Innovative Renter's Tax Credit for Healthier Families and Stable Communities in Massachusetts04/30/2018 - 04/30/2019 (PI)
Boston Foundation
BMC Career Mobility Pathways and Community Partnerships Grant11/01/2021 - 10/31/2024 (Research Lead)
Wagner Foundation
Early Identification of Rising Risk Families and Parent-Guided Team-Based Care to Prevent and Mitigate Toxic Stress05/01/2020 - 04/30/2023 (Project Lead)
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Megan Sandel, MDJPB Foundation
Leveraging health research and pediatric perspectives to advance a permanently expanded and fully inclusive, monthly Child Tax Credit01/01/2022 - 12/31/2022 (PI)
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Examining the child allowance and child/family economic well-being among families of color07/01/2021 - 06/30/2022 (Project Lead)
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Megan Sandel, MDBoston University Center for Antiracist Research
Federal EITC & CTC Policy Advocacy and Support for Qualitative Study of Immigrant Mothers in Greater Boston01/01/2020 - 12/31/2020 (PI)
Annie E. Casey Foundation
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Lê-Scherban F, Wang A, Courts KA, Ettinger de Cuba S, Wade R, Chilton M. A Short Adverse Experiences Measure Among Mothers of Young Children. Pediatrics. 2024 Apr 01; 153(4). PMID: 38449423
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Ettinger de Cuba S, Coleman SM. Involving Families in Public Policy Innovation to Reduce Cost-Driven Moves and Related Disruption. Pediatrics. 2024 Mar 01; 153(3). PMID: 38317617; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2023-063971;
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McCann NC, Dean LT, Bovell-Ammon A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Green T, Shafer PR, Raifman J. Association between Child Tax Credit advance payments and food insufficiency in households experiencing economic shocks. Health Aff Sch. 2024 Feb; 2(2):qxae011.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38756550; PMCID: PMC10986194; DOI: 10.1093/haschl/qxae011;
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Kaur A, Gottlieb LM, Ettinger de Cuba S, Byhoff E, Fleegler EW, Cohen AJ, Glasser NJ, Ommerborn MJ, Clark CR, De Marchis EH. Associations Between Patient/Caregiver Trust in Clinicians and Experiences of Healthcare-Based Discrimination. J Am Board Fam Med. 2024; 37(4):607-636. PMID: 39455263
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Poblacion A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Frank DA, Esteves G, Rateau LJ, Heeren TC, Coleman S, Black MM, Cutts DB, Lê-Scherban F, Ochoa ER, Sandel M, Sheward R, Cook J. Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2023 Oct; 123(10S):S89-S102.e4.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37730309
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Ettinger de Cuba S, Miller DP, Raifman J, Cutts DB, Bovell-Ammon A, Frank DA, Jones DK. Reduced health care utilization among young children of immigrants after Donald Trump's election and proposed public charge rule. Health Affairs Scholar. 2023; 1(2):qxad023. View Publication
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Ettinger de Cuba S, Miller DP, Raifman J, Cutts DB, Bovell-Ammon A, Frank DA, Jones DK. Reduced health care utilization among young children of immigrants after Donald Trump's election and proposed public charge rule. Health Aff Sch. 2023 Aug; 1(2):qxad023.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38756243; PMCID: PMC10986243; DOI: 10.1093/haschl/qxad023;
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Ettinger de Cuba S, Bovell-Ammon A, Ahmad N, Bruce C, Poblacion A, Rateau LJ, Coleman SM, Black MM, Frank DA, Lê-Scherban F, Henchy G, Ochoa E, Sandel M, Cutts DB. Child Care Feeding Programs Associated With Food Security and Health for Young Children From Families With Low Incomes. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2023 Oct; 123(10):1429-1439.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37302653
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Lê-Scherban F, Ettinger de Cuba S, Bovell-Ammon A, Coleman S, Rateau L, Cutts D, Black M, Heeren T, Frank DA. Association Between Material Hardship in Families With Young Children and Federal Relief Program Participation by Race and Ethnicity and Maternal Nativity. JAMA Health Forum. 2023 Apr 07; 4(4):e230508.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37083823; PMCID: PMC10122179; DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.0508;
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Bovell-Ammon A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Lê-Scherban F, Rateau L, Heeren T, Cantave C, Green KA, Frank DA, Cutts D, Ochoa E, Sandel M. Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race. J Immigr Minor Health. 2023 Apr; 25(2):483-488.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36334182; PMCID: PMC9638452; DOI: 10.1007/s10903-022-01410-z;
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Carlson JM, Zanobetti A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Poblacion AP, Fabian PM, Carnes F, Rhee J, Lane KJ, Sandel MT, Janulewicz PA. Critical windows of susceptibility for the effects of prenatal exposure to heat and heat variability on gestational growth. Environ Res. 2023 Jan 01; 216(Pt 2):114607.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36279910; DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114607;
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Cutts DB, Ettinger de Cuba S, Bovell-Ammon A, Wellington C, Coleman SM, Frank DA, Black MM, Ochoa E, Chilton M, Lê-Scherban F, Heeren T, Rateau LJ, Sandel M. Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children. Pediatrics. 2022 Oct 01; 150(4).View Related Profiles. PMID: 36120757; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2022-056692;
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Cook J, Sheward R, Poblacion A, Bovell-Ammon A, McAleer E, Cluggish S, Ettinger de Cuba S. Food Insecurity and Its Relationship to Income, Employment, and Poverty. 2022. View Publication
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Poblacion A, Bovell-Ammon A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Sheward R, McAleer E, Cluggish S, Cook J. . National Efforts to End Food Insecurity and Hunger: A Historical Retrospective of Intermittent Investments in Food Programs. 2022. View Publication
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Bovell-Ammon A, Burnett D, Ettinger de Cuba S, Gupta-Barnes S, Banks J, Bates E, Coleman S, Bruce C, Lê-Scherban F. ?I didn’t have to worry' – How the Child Tax Credit Helped Families Catch Up on Rent and Improved Health. 2022. View Publication
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Bovell-Ammon A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Lê-Scherban F, Gupta-Barnes S, Rateau LJ, Bruce C, Sheward R, Frank DA . The Child Tax Credit Benefits Whole Families: Preliminary data show improved food security and parental health. 2022. View Publication
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Bovell-Ammon A, McCann N, Mulugeta M, Ettinger de Cuba S, Raifman J, Shafer P. Food insufficiency in families with children increased after expiration of Child Tax Credit monthly payments. Boston University School of Public Health & Children's HealthWatch. Boston. 2022. View Publication
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Ettinger de Cuba S, Mbamalu M, Bovell-Ammon A, Black MM, Cutts DB, Lê-Scherban F, Coleman SM, Ochoa ER, Heeren TC, Poblacion A, Sandel M, Bruce C, Rateau LJ, Frank DA. Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2022 Aug; 122(8):1514-1524.e4.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35151905
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Chu MT, Ettinger de Cuba S, Fabian MP, Lane KJ, James-Todd T, Williams DR, Coull BA, Carnes F, Massaro M, Levy JI, Laden F, Sandel M, Adamkiewicz G, Zanobetti A. The immigrant birthweight paradox in an urban cohort: Role of immigrant enclaves and ambient air pollution. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Jul; 32(4):571-582.View Related Profiles. PMID: 34980894; PMCID: PMC9250941; DOI: 10.1038/s41370-021-00403-8;
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Vanoli J, Coull BA, Ettinger de Cuba S, Fabian PM, Carnes F, Massaro MA, Poblacion A, Bellocco R, Kloog I, Schwartz J, Laden F, Zanobetti A. Postnatal exposure to PM2.5 and weight trajectories in early childhood. Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Feb; 6(1):e181.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35169661; PMCID: PMC8835545; DOI: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000181;
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De Marchis EH, Ettinger de Cuba SA, Chang L, Sheward RS, Doran KM, Gottlieb LM, Cohen AJ, Fleegler EW, Sandel MT. Screening Discordance and Characteristics of Patients With Housing-Related Social Risks. Am J Prev Med. 2021 07; 61(1):e1-e12.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33785274
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Sheward R, Bruce C, Frank DA, Coleman S, Ettinger de Cuba S, Robinson B, Cutts DB. Can the Hunger Vital Sign™ Act as a Prescreen for Other Social Needs?. JARC Children at Risk. 2021.
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Bovell-Ammon A, Mansilla C, Poblacion A, Rateau L, Heeren T, Cook JT, Zhang T, de Cuba SE, Sandel MT. Housing Intervention For Medically Complex Families Associated With Improved Family Health: Pilot Randomized Trial. Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 04; 39(4):613-621.View Related Profiles. PMID: 32250672
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Rosofsky AS, Fabian MP, Ettinger de Cuba S, Sandel M, Coleman S, Levy JI, Coull BA, Hart JE, Zanobetti A. Prenatal Ambient Particulate Matter Exposure and Longitudinal Weight Growth Trajectories in Early Childhood. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 02 24; 17(4).View Related Profiles. PMID: 32102302; PMCID: PMC7068568; DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17041444;
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Byhoff E, De Marchis EH, Hessler D, Fichtenberg C, Adler N, Cohen AJ, Doran KM, Ettinger de Cuba S, Fleegler EW, Gavin N, Huebschmann AG, Lindau ST, Tung EL, Raven M, Jepson S, Johnson W, Olson AL, Sandel M, Sheward RS, Gottlieb LM. Part II: A Qualitative Study of Social Risk Screening Acceptability in Patients and Caregivers. Am J Prev Med. 2019 12; 57(6 Suppl 1):S38-S46.View Related Profiles. PMID: 31753278; PMCID: PMC6876708; DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2019.07.016;
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De Marchis EH, Hessler D, Fichtenberg C, Adler N, Byhoff E, Cohen AJ, Doran KM, Ettinger de Cuba S, Fleegler EW, Lewis CC, Lindau ST, Tung EL, Huebschmann AG, Prather AA, Raven M, Gavin N, Jepson S, Johnson W, Ochoa E, Olson AL, Sandel M, Sheward RS, Gottlieb LM. Part I: A Quantitative Study of Social Risk Screening Acceptability in Patients and Caregivers. Am J Prev Med. 2019 12; 57(6 Suppl 1):S25-S37.View Related Profiles. PMID: 31753277; PMCID: PMC7336892; DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2019.07.010;
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Rhee J, Fabian MP, Ettinger de Cuba S, Coleman S, Sandel M, Lane KJ, Yitshak Sade M, Hart JE, Schwartz J, Kloog I, Laden F, Levy JI, Zanobetti A. Effects of Maternal Homelessness, Supplemental Nutrition Programs, and Prenatal PM2.5 on Birthweight. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 10 28; 16(21).View Related Profiles. PMID: 31661898; PMCID: PMC6862522; DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16214154;
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Ettinger de Cuba SA, Bovell-Ammon AR, Cook JT, Coleman SM, Black MM, Chilton MM, Casey PH, Cutts DB, Heeren TC, Sandel MT, Sheward R, Frank DA. SNAP, Young Children's Health, and Family Food Security and Healthcare Access. Am J Prev Med. 2019 10; 57(4):525-532.View Related Profiles. PMID: 31542130
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Tang MN, Ettinger de Cuba S, Coleman SM, Heeren T, Sandel M, Chilton M, Frank DA, Huh SY. Maternal Place of Birth, Socioeconomic Characteristics, and Child Health in US-Born Latinx Children in Boston. Acad Pediatr. 2020 03; 20(2):225-233.View Related Profiles. PMID: 31541703; PMCID: PMC7081477; DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2019.09.005;
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Drennen CR, Coleman SM, Ettinger de Cuba S, Frank DA, Chilton M, Cook JT, Cutts DB, Heeren T, Casey PH, Black MM. Food Insecurity, Health, and Development in Children Under Age Four Years. Pediatrics. 2019 10; 144(4).View Related Profiles. PMID: 31501233; PMCID: PMC7599443; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2019-0824;
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Rose-Jacobs R, Ettinger de Cuba S, Bovell-Ammon A, Black MM, Coleman SM, Cutts D, Chilton M, Heeren T, Casey P, Ochoa E, Frank DA, Sandel M. Housing Instability Among Families With Young Children With Special Health Care Needs. Pediatrics. 2019 08; 144(2).View Related Profiles. PMID: 31292218
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Ettinger de Cuba S, Chilton M, Bovell-Ammon A, Knowles M, Coleman SM, Black MM, Cook JT, Cutts DB, Casey PH, Heeren TC, Frank DA. Loss Of SNAP Is Associated With Food Insecurity And Poor Health In Working Families With Young Children. Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 05; 38(5):765-773.View Related Profiles. PMID: 31059367
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Sheward R, Bovell-Ammon A, Ahmad N, Preer G, Ettinger de Cuba S, Sandel M. Promoting Caregiver and Child Health Through Housing and Stability Screening in Clinical Settings. Zero to Three. 2019; 39(4):52-59.
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Sandel M, Sheward R, Ettinger de Cuba S, Coleman S, Heeren T, Black MM, Casey PH, Chilton M, Cook J, Cutts DB, Rose-Jacobs R, Frank DA. Timing and Duration of Pre- and Postnatal Homelessness and the Health of Young Children. Pediatrics. 2018 10; 142(4).View Related Profiles. PMID: 30177513
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Sandel M, Sheward R, Ettinger de Cuba S, Coleman SM, Frank DA, Chilton M, Black M, Heeren T, Pasquariello J, Casey P, Ochoa E, Cutts D. Unstable Housing and Caregiver and Child Health in Renter Families. Pediatrics. 2018 02; 141(2).View Related Profiles. PMID: 29358482
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Ettinger de Cuba S, Casey PH, Cutts D, Heeren TC, Coleman S, Bovell-Ammon AR, Frank DA, Cook JT. Household food insecurity positively associated with increased hospital charges for infants. JARC Children at Risk. 2018; 9(1).
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Cutts DB, Bovell-Ammon A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Sheward R, Shaefer M, Huang C, Black MM, Casey PH, Coleman S, Sandel M, Frank DA. Homelessness During Infancy: Associations with Infant and Maternal Health and Hardship Outcomes. Cityscape. 2018; 20(2):137-150.
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Poblacion A, Cook J, Ettinger de Cuba S, Bovell A, Sheward R, Pasquariello J, Cutts D. Can Food Insecurity Be Reduced in the United States by Improving SNAP, WIC, and the Community Eligibility Provision?. WMHP. 2017; 9(4):435-455.
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Rose-Jacobs R, Fiore JG, de Cuba SE, Black M, Cutts DB, Coleman SM, Heeren T, Chilton M, Casey P, Cook J, Frank DA. Children with Special Health Care Needs, Supplemental Security Income, and Food Insecurity. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2016 Feb-Mar; 37(2):140-7.View Related Profiles. PMID: 26836641; DOI: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000260;
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Knowles M, Rabinowich J, Ettinger de Cuba S, Cutts DB, Chilton M. "Do You Wanna Breathe or Eat?": Parent Perspectives on Child Health Consequences of Food Insecurity, Trade-Offs, and Toxic Stress. Matern Child Health J. 2016 Jan; 20(1):25-32. PMID: 26156827; PMCID: PMC4712223; DOI: 10.1007/s10995-015-1797-8;
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Cutts DB, Coleman S, Black MM, Chilton MM, Cook JT, de Cuba SE, Heeren TC, Meyers A, Sandel M, Casey PH, Frank DA. Homelessness during pregnancy: a unique, time-dependent risk factor of birth outcomes. Matern Child Health J. 2015 Jun; 19(6):1276-83.View Related Profiles. PMID: 25404405; DOI: 10.1007/s10995-014-1633-6;
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Bovell A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Casey P, Coleman S, Cook J, Cutts DB, Heeren TC, Meyers A, Sandel M, Black MM, Frank DA. . Trends in Household and Child Food Insecurity Among Families with Young Children from 2007 to 2013. JARC Children at Risk. 2015; 6(2).
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Bailey KT, Cook JT, Ettinger de Cuba S, Casey PH, Chilton M, Coleman S, Cutts D, Heeren T, Rose-Jacobs R, Black M, Frank DA. Development of an Index of Subsidized Housing Availability and its Relationship to Housing Insecurity. Housing Policy Debate. 2015; 26(1):172-187.
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Sandel M, Cutts D, Meyers A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Coleman S, Black M, Casey PH, Chilton M, Cook JT, Shortell A, Heeren T, Frank DA. Co-Enrollment for Child Health: How Receipt and Loss of Food and Housing Subsidies Relate to Housing Security and Statuses for Streamlined, Multi-Subsidy Applications. JARC Children at Risk. 2014; 5(2).
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Frank DA, de Cuba SE, Sandel M, Black MM. SNAP cuts will harm children in the USA. Lancet. 2013 Oct 5; 382(9899):1155-6.View Related Profiles. PMID: 24095184
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Meyers A, Joyce K, Coleman SM, Cook JT, Cutts D, Ettinger de Cuba S, Heeren TC, Rose-Jacobs R, Black MM, Casey PH, Chilton M, Sandel M, Frank DA. Health of children classified as underweight by CDC reference but normal by WHO standard. Pediatrics. 2013 Jun; 131(6):e1780-7.View Related Profiles. PMID: 23690515; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-2382;
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Ettinger de Cuba S, Frank DA, Pilgrim M, Buitrago M, Voremberg A, Vollinger H, Hines D. Food Insecurity among Children in Massachusetts. NEJPP. 2013; 25(1).
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Cook JT, Black M, Chilton M, Cutts D, Ettinger de Cuba S, Heeren TC, Rose-Jacobs R, Sandel M, Casey PH, Coleman S, Weiss I, Frank DA. Are food insecurity's health impacts underestimated in the U.S. population? Marginal food security also predicts adverse health outcomes in young U.S. children and mothers. Adv Nutr. 2013 Jan; 4(1):51-61.View Related Profiles. PMID: 23319123; PMCID: PMC3648739; DOI: 10.3945/an.112.003228;
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Black MM, Quigg AM, Cook J, Casey PH, Cutts DB, Chilton M, Meyers A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Heeren T, Coleman S, Rose-Jacobs R, Frank DA. WIC participation and attenuation of stress-related child health risks of household food insecurity and caregiver depressive symptoms. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012 May; 166(5):444-51.View Related Profiles. PMID: 22566545; DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.1;
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Joyce KM, Breen A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Cook J, Barrett KW, Paik G, Pishi N, Pullen B, Schiffmiller A, Frank D. Household Hardships, Public Programs, and Their Associations with the Health and Development of Very Young Children: Insights from Children’s HealthWatch. JARC Children at Risk. 2012; 3(1).
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Cutts DB, Meyers AF, Black MM, Casey PH, Chilton M, Cook JT, Geppert J, Ettinger de Cuba S, Heeren T, Coleman S, Rose-Jacobs R, Frank DA. US Housing insecurity and the health of very young children. Am J Public Health. 2011 Aug; 101(8):1508-14.View Related Profiles. PMID: 21680929; PMCID: PMC3134514; DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300139;
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Hager ER, Quigg AM, Black MM, Coleman SM, Heeren T, Rose-Jacobs R, Cook JT, de Cuba SA, Casey PH, Chilton M, Cutts DB, Meyers AF, Frank DA. Development and validity of a 2-item screen to identify families at risk for food insecurity. Pediatrics. 2010 Jul; 126(1):e26-32.View Related Profiles. PMID: 20595453; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-3146;
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Frank DA, Casey PH, Black MM, Rose-Jacobs R, Chilton M, Cutts D, March E, Heeren T, Coleman S, de Cuba SE, Cook JT. Cumulative hardship and wellness of low-income, young children: multisite surveillance study. Pediatrics. 2010 May; 125(5):e1115-23.View Related Profiles. PMID: 20385641; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-1078;
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Chilton M, Black MM, Berkowitz C, Casey PH, Cook J, Cutts D, Jacobs RR, Heeren T, de Cuba SE, Coleman S, Meyers A, Frank DA. Food insecurity and risk of poor health among US-born children of immigrants. Am J Public Health. 2009 Mar; 99(3):556-62.View Related Profiles. PMID: 19106417; PMCID: PMC2661461; DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.144394;
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Cook JT, Frank DA, Casey PH, Rose-Jacobs R, Black MM, Chilton M, Ettinger de Cuba S, Appugliese D, Coleman S, Heeren T, Berkowitz C, Cutts DB. A brief indicator of household energy security: associations with food security, child health, and child development in US infants and toddlers. Pediatrics. 2008 Oct; 122(4):e867-75.View Related Profiles. PMID: 18829785; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0286;
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Chilton M, Ettinger de Cuba S, Cutts DB. La alimentación y el bienestar de los ciudadanos estadounidenses más jóvenes de madres mexicanas, centroamericanas, y caribeñas. Les Cahiers Alhim. 2008.
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Parker MG, Ettinger de Cuba S, Rateau LJ, Sandel M, Frank DA, Cutts DB, Heeren T, Lê-Scherban F, Black MM, Ochoa E Jr, Garg A. Household Unmet Basic Needs in the First 1000 Days and Preterm Birth Status. J Perinatol.
This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown,
or last author.
| Year | Publications |
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| 2008 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2018 | 4 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2022 | 15 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
2011 National Women's Law Center:
Progressive Leadership and Advocacy Network (PLAN) Selective Training Institute
2003 Boston University School of Public Health:
Rex Fendall Award for Excellence in Public Health Writing
2003 Boston University School of Public Health:
Student Speaker, Commencement
1994 Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI:
Bronson-Thomas Essay Prize
I have not had the traditional path to academia and have navigated a multitude of challenging circumstances to arrive at this point in my career, including juggling a full-time, demanding job as a single parent while pursuing a doctorate. I believe my prior experience in program, policy, and advocacy roles enriches my perspective as an academic. I would love to support students and other faculty, including but not limited to non-traditional and/or first-generation students, those navigating life as an older student, faculty or students with young children, those from immigrant backgrounds, women, and single parents.
Available to Mentor as: (Review Mentor Role Definitions):
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Diversity Mentor
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Project Mentor
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Research / Scholarly Mentor
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Work / Life Integration Mentor