Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba

Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), 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 (SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, Housing subsidies, Cash transfers), 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 is the Executive Director of Children’s HealthWatch and holds appointments in the Boston University School of Public Health and Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She 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.

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