Happy New Year! Last year, the ECHO Program continued to make substantial progress in our mission to enhance the health of children for generations to come. I thank all participants and researchers involved with ECHO for their contributions in 2022 and look forward to continued success in 2023.

As a reminder, de-identified data from the ECHO Program are now available as a resource for the entire scientific community. This public-use version of ECHO-wide Cohort data fulfills both a key strategic goal of the ECHO Program and an obligation to U.S. taxpayers for their investment in our research. You can learn more about this data set and how researchers can request access to it in the January issue of the Connector.

Another announcement of potential interest: ECHO, assisted by other NIH partners, will host a workshop on Return of Individual Research Results to Participants on March 16-17, 2023. The purpose of the workshop is to identify best practices to ethically and feasibly return individual research results to participants in large-sample studies including pregnant women and children. I invite anyone interested to join the audience; click for registration details.