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Eduardo Ochoa
Professor
faculty
Peds Pediatrics, College of Medicine
14 h-index
47 pubs
2,145 cited
Research Areas
Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Eduardo Ochoa's research focuses on child health, particularly concerning the impacts of socioeconomic factors and public health guidelines. He has co-authored clinical practice guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with obesity, with multiple publications on this topic in 2023. His work also investigates the connections between poverty, housing instability, and health outcomes in families with young children, including studies on unmet basic needs and their association with preterm birth. Ochoa has examined changes in economic hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic, noting differences by nativity and race, and has explored the role of prenatal programs like WIC in infant health. He has also contributed to the development and validation of tools to assess food security in clinical and research settings.
Ochoa's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 14, with a total of 47 publications and over 2,000 citations. He collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Beatrice A. Boateng, Irma C. Cardenas, and D. Kelley.
Metrics
- h-index: 14
- Publications: 47
- Citations: 2,145
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
- 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 - Pass Through: 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
- No FP attached UAMS ACHRI Flow Through 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
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba
Boston University (US)
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
- 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
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
Deborah A. Frank
Boston University (US)
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
- 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
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
Félice Lê‐Scherban
Drexel University (US)
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
- 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
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
Megan Sandel
Boston University (US)
11 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
Diana B. Cutts
Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (US)
11 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
- 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
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
Maureen M. Black
RTI International (US)
11 shared publications
- Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children
- Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status
- 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
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
Lindsey Rateau
Boston University (US)
7 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
- 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
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Timothy Heeren
Boston University (US)
7 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
- 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
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
S. M. Coleman
Boston University (US)
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
Ana Poblacion
Boston University (US)
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
Allison Bovell-Ammon
Boston Medical Center (US)
6 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
- 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
- “But who takes care of the mom?”: The daily experiences of immigrant mothers navigating health in family life
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Charlotte Bruce
Boston Medical Center (US)
3 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
Sarah Hampl
University of Missouri–Kansas City (US)
3 shared publications
- 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
Sandra G. Hassink
American Academy of Pediatrics (US)
3 shared publications
- 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
Asheley Cockrell Skinner
Duke University (US)
3 shared publications
- 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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