Eduardo Ochoa
Professor
Also affiliated: Boston Medical Center (2020); Arkansas Children's Hospital (2022–2023); SUNY Upstate Medical University (2006); Universidad Católica de Cuenca (2018); Wake Forest University (2005–2006)
Faculty Researcher
Peds Pediatrics, College of Medicine
Research Areas
Biomedical Subjects
Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Eduardo Ochoa's research focuses on child health, particularly in the context of socioeconomic factors and public health guidelines. He has co-authored clinical practice guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of obesity in children and adolescents. His work also investigates the impact of economic hardships on household health, including studies on unmet basic needs during the first 1000 days of life and their association with preterm birth, as well as changes in economic hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic, with attention to differences by nativity and race.
Further research by Ochoa examines the association between prenatal participation in the WIC program and infant birth weight among infants born to mothers in the United States. He has also contributed to the development and validation of abbreviated food security scales for use in clinical and research settings. Ochoa's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 14, with 47 total publications and over 2,100 citations.
Metrics
- h-index: 15
- Publications: 47
- Citations: 2,287
Selected Publications
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Caregiver Incarceration and Incarceration-Related Barriers to SNAP Among Young Children (2026)
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Hardship-Free Households Are Associated With Optimal Caregiver and Child Health (2025)
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Expanded Child Tax Credit, Family Health, and Material Hardships (2025)
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“But who takes care of the mom?”: The daily experiences of immigrant mothers navigating health in family life (2025)
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Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health (2025)
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Food Insecurity and Weight Faltering: US Multisite Analysis of Young Children’s Weight Trajectory (2024)
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Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States (2023)
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Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity (2023)
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Child Care Feeding Programs Associated With Food Security and Health for Young Children From Families With Low Incomes (2023)
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Associations of household unmet basic needs and health outcomes among very low birth weight children (2023)
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Continuity of care in Arkansas children’s primary care clinics and opportunity for improvement (2023)
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Executive Summary: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity (2023)
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Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity (2023)
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Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race (2022)
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Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children (2022)
Grants & Funding
As listed on this researcher's institutional profile.
- HEAD START_EARLY HEAD START - Continuation - 06CH7095 - Continuation DHHS - Administration for Children & Families Principal Investigator
- Determination of antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory and chymase inhibitory efficacy of sweet potato and rice bran extract US Department of Agriculture via University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Principal Investigator
- FY2021 Head Start/Early Head Start DHHS 5 year grant proposal DHHS -Administration for Children and Familes - Administration on Children, Youth & Families Principal Investigator
- Early Head Start and Child Care Partnership; "A Community Hub Approach" AR Dept of Human Services/Div. of Child Care & Early Childhood Education Principal Investigator
- Head Start / Early Head Start USDA FY21 Arkansas Department of Human Services Principal Investigator
- Head Start / Early Head Start COLA Funding & Quality Improvement Funding FY20 DHHS - Administration for Children & Families Principal Investigator
- Kresge -Community collected Data to make the Case for Homes for Health / FY18 CHW UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
- COVID DHHS - Administration for Children & Families Principal Investigator
- Learning Action Network - Boston Medical JPB Foundation via Boston Medical Center Principal Investigator
- FY2025 Head Start/Ealry Head Start Program 5yrs DHHS -Administration for Children and Familes - Administration on Children, Youth & Families DHHS -Administration for Children and Families - Administration on Children, Youth & Families via DHHS - Administration for Children & Families Principal Investigator
- FY2021 Head Start/Early Head Start DHHS 5 year grant proposal DHHS -Administration for Children and Families - Administration on Children, Youth & Families Principal Investigator
- Head Start / Early Head Start USDA FY24 Arkansas Department of Education Principal Investigator
- Children's Health Watch UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
- Maintenance Grant Funds US Department of the Treasury via Arkansas Department of Human Services Principal Investigator
- HEAD START_EARLY HEAD START - Continuation - 06CH7095 DHHS - Administration for Children & Families Principal Investigator
- Head Start and/or Early Head Start Grantee --Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas DHHS - Administration for Children & Families Principal Investigator
- Early Identification of Rising Risk Families and Parent-Guided Team Based Care to Prevent and Mitigate Toxic Stress JPB Foundation via UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
- FY2026 HS/EHS DHHS Grant DHHS -Administration for Children and Families - Administration on Children, Youth & Families Principal Investigator
- USDA-Head Start FY18 AR Dept of Human Services/Div. of Child Care & Early Childhood Education Principal Investigator
- Better Beginnings Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services via Arkansas Department of Education Principal Investigator
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race
- Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status
- Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States
Showing 5 of 13 shared publications
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race
- Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status
- Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States
Showing 5 of 13 shared publications
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race
- Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status
- Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race
- Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status
- Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States
- Child Care Feeding Programs Associated With Food Security and Health for Young Children From Families With Low Incomes
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race
- Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status
- Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status
- Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States
- Child Care Feeding Programs Associated With Food Security and Health for Young Children From Families With Low Incomes
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race
- Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status
- Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race
- Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status
- Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States
- Child Care Feeding Programs Associated With Food Security and Health for Young Children From Families With Low Incomes
- Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States
- Child Care Feeding Programs Associated With Food Security and Health for Young Children From Families With Low Incomes
- “But who takes care of the mom?”: The daily experiences of immigrant mothers navigating health in family life
- Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race
- Child Care Feeding Programs Associated With Food Security and Health for Young Children From Families With Low Incomes
- “But who takes care of the mom?”: The daily experiences of immigrant mothers navigating health in family life
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers
- Child Care Feeding Programs Associated With Food Security and Health for Young Children From Families With Low Incomes
- Expanded Child Tax Credit, Family Health, and Material Hardships
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity
- Executive Summary: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity
- Executive Summary: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity
- Executive Summary: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity
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