The ECHO Coordinating Center is pleased to announce that the NIH ECHO Program Office has selected 11 investigators to receive research funding through the ECHO Opportunities and Innovation Fund (OIF).
The OIF is an NIH-funded grant mechanism to support early career investigators on projects that can introduce new research, tools, and technologies in the ECHO Program. Each OIF investigator is sponsored by an ECHO award. In ECHO Cohort Cycle 2, NIH expects to provide OIF funding through five rounds.
For this first round, NIH requested proposals focusing on the following areas:
- The Science of Operations
- Return of individual research results
- Filling remaining gaps in remote assessment
- Scientific Areas
- Early origins of health disparities
- Health trajectories
- Resilience
- Application of modern causal inference methods
Congratulations to the awardees! See below for the full list of awardees and their research proposal titles:
- Sylvia Badon, PhD – Hedderson Award, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research
- Estimating Adiposity: Validity of Skinfold Thickness as a Measure of Body Fat Mass Across Childhood
- Helen Chin, PhD, MPH – Hunt Award, George Mason University
- Prenatal and Minipubertal Exposure to Air Pollution and Pubertal Timing
- Whitney Cowell, PhD, MPH – Trasande Award, New York University School of Medicine
- Expanding Report Back to Diverse Communities
- Emily Ho, PhD – Measurement Core Award, Northwestern University
- Validating Remote Assessment of Neurocognitive Outcomes in English and Spanish Children 3 and up Using the V3 NIH Toolbox Participant Examiner App
- Christine Loftus, PhD, MS, MPH – Karr Award, University of Washington
- Development of a Rapid Response Protocol for Acute Wildfire Smoke Exposure
- Siyuan Ma, MS, PhD – Hartert Award, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- The Role of Airway “Sociobiome” in Neighborhood-Related Childhood Asthma Burden
- Jiwon Oh, MPH, PhD – Schmidt Award, University of California, Davis
- Prenatal Air Pollution Exposure, Maternal Inflammation, and Child Neurodevelopment: Influences of Interpersonal and Neighborhood Socioecological Factors
- Alicia Peterson, PhD – Ferrara Award, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research
- Air Pollution Exposure and Pubertal Development: Identifying Possible Early Origins of Health Disparities
- Alexandra Sullivan, PhD – Zhao Award, University of California San Francisco
- Advancing Equity-Centered Remote Assessment of Parenting and Child Self-Regulation: Tailoring and Validating Brief Remote Parent-Child Observations and Coding in ECHO
- Mingyu Zhang, PhD, MHS – Oken Award, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Ambient Temperature During Pregnancy and the Cardiovascular Health of Pregnant Women and Their Children
- Zhaozhong Zhu, ScD – Camargo Award, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Causal Relationship Between Methylation Quantitative Trait Loci (meQTL) and Childhood Asthma