The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program in the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health has made 49 awards totaling over $157 million for the first year of the second seven-year cycle of the ECHO Cohort Consortium.

Forty-five ECHO Cohort Study Sites will recruit and continue to follow participants across the country. A Coordinating Center, Data Analysis Center, Laboratory Core, and Measurement Core will help facilitate the science. Together, as the ECHO Cohort Consortium, they will conduct observational research to further investigate the roles of a broad range of early exposures, including during the preconception period, on five key child health outcomes among diverse populations.

Learn more on the NIH ECHO website.