Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba
Dr. Ettinger de Cuba is the Executive Director for Children’s HealthWatch. Dr. Ettinger de Cuba has worked on issues of social determinants of health for young children and their families in program, policy and research roles for more than two decades. She has published more than 75 research papers and policy reports on a variety of subjects from food to housing to health care. Dr. Ettinger de Cuba is part of Center for Research on Environmental and Social Stressors in Housing Across the Life Course (CRESSH) contributing with several other team members to the HEAL project. Prior to joining Children’s HealthWatch, Dr. Ettinger de Cuba worked at Project Bread –the Walk for Hunger, a statewide anti-hunger organization in Massachusetts. There, she focused on SNAP (formerly food stamps) policy and outreach and was the evaluator and interim project director for USDA grants to develop and pilot Massachusetts’ first SNAP website and online application. Dr. Ettinger de Cuba previously worked for the Agricultural Health Study at the University of Iowa College of Public Health and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia focused on small-scale agriculture and nutrition and hygiene education. Dr. Ettinger de Cuba received her BA from the University of Michigan and her MPH in International Health and PhD in Health Services Research from Boston University School of Public Health.