Researchers across the ECHO Cohort Consortium and ECHO ISPCTN have now published more than 1,700 research articles. Recent research publications include associations of synthetic oxytocin, socioeconomic stress, and the infant gut microbiome with neurodevelopment and behavior outcomes in children, and another investigates the relationship between phthalate exposure and high blood pressure during pregnancy.

As we explored in our recent commentary in the American Journal of Epidemiology, ECHO breaks new ground not only by collecting data and samples for widespread use by the scientific community but also by building tools to investigate complex mixtures of environmental and social determinants of health.

Beyond our publications, ECHO continues to communicate through our live monthly ECHO Discovery webinars about research in progress, open to all. Our ECHO Research Spotlight (below) features work that ECHO researchers highlighted at one such recent webinar. We have also posted recordings of our May 2024 webinar on racism and maternal health disparities, our June webinar on fish consumption during pregnancy, and our July webinar on emerging trends in pediatric obesity. Our August webinar will focus on epigenetic regulators in human milk.

Whether you are a participant or researcher powering ECHO’s science, or a policymaker or advocate looking for better information to enhance child health, we hope you are benefitting from our work. Thank you.

—Matthew W. Gillman, M.D., S.M.