ECHO Discovery is a monthly webinar series with educational presentations for the ECHO community by internal speakers.
Series goals are to:
- Build and strengthen the ECHO community;
- Advance understanding of environmental influences on child health; and
- Extend the science and expertise within ECHO to a broader community, including scientists, participants, and the public-at-large.
Upcoming Events
There are no upcoming events.
Past Events
- April 8 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Elissa Z Faro, PhD: Participant Experience in Longitudinal Research
- March 11 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Alicia Peterson, PhD: Early-Life PFAS Exposure and Child Health: Evidence from the NIH ECHO Cohort
- February 11 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Courtney K Blackwell, PhD, MEd: The kids are(n’t) alright: The role of social media in youth mental health
- January 14 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Jean Kerver, PhD, MSc, RD: Incorporating Early Life Micronutrient Status in ECHO studies of Neurodevelopment
- December 10, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Allan C. Just, PhD: Air pollution and temperature as spatial factors impacting child health
- November 12, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Ricardo Bertolla, PhD: Paternal effects on child health and development: where are we now, where do we need to be?
- October 8, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Christine Loftus, MS, MPH, Ph.D: Where there’s smoke… there’s action? What ECHO can do to protect children from wildfire smoke
- September 10, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Chang Liu, Ph.D: Early Childhood BMI Trajectories and Weight Status Lability: Leveraging ECHO’s Longitudinal Data to Identify Critical Developmental Patterns
- August 13, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Dr. Maxwell Mansolf – Predictors of Child Eating and Parent Feeding in the ECHO Cohort
- June 11, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Diana Pacyga, M.S., PhD: Does adherence to U.S. dietary guidelines during pregnancy reduce exposure to over 50 contemporary and understudied chemicals?
- May 14, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Dr. Christine Ladd-Acosta, PhD: What is DNA methylation and how can it help us address ECHO scientific priorities and improve child health?
- April 9, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Linda Kahn, MD, PhD: Opportunities and challenges for subfecundity research in ECHO
- February 12, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Nathalie Maitre, MD, PhD: Stakeholder Engagement in Pediatric Disability Research: Why and How to do it
- January 8, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Courtney K. Blackwell, PhD, EdM and Richard Gershon, PhD: An Introduction to the NIH Baby Toolbox
- December 11, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Isar P. Godreau Santiago, PhD and Mariluz Franco-Ortiz, PhD: Applications of Skin Color Scales to the Study of Racial Inequality
- November 13, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Sarah Comstock, PhD: Microbiomes of Pregnancy and Infancy: Implications for Child Health Outcomes
- October 9, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Alison Paquette, PhD: Multi-Omic Data Illuminates the Placenta’s Role as a Mediator Between Prenatal EDC Exposures and Preterm Birth
- September 11, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello: The Early Life Microbiome and Disrupting Exposures
- August 14, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Caitlin G. Howe, PhD: Epigenetic Regulators in Human Milk: Opportunities in ECHO with a Focus on miRNAs
- July 10, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Dr. Jacqueline Chan: Emerging Trends and Treatments in Pediatric Obesity
- June 12, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Fish Consumption during Pregnancy and Impacts on Child Health
- May 8, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha: Unveiling Maternal Health Disparities: Addressing the Impact of Racism
- April 10, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Penn-CHOP ECHO: Applying causal inference methods to address pressing questions in environmental children’s health
- March 13, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Dr. Elena Colicino: Cross-Cohort Mixture Analysis: A Data Integration Approach with Applications on Child Health Outcomes
- February 14, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Dr. Petrick: Untargeted Analysis of Microsamplers: The Utility of Dried Capillary Blood Spots for Exposome Research
- January 10, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Dr. Romano: Using Knowledge-Driven AI to Predict and Explain Environmental Health Outcomes in Mothers and Children
- December 13, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Dr. Akhgar Ghassabian: Prenatal Air Pollution Exposure and Risk of Autism: New Insight from ECHO Cohorts
- November 8, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Dr. Wei Perng: Understanding the natural history of cardiovascular health across early-life
- October 11, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Dr. Claudia Thompson: Identifying and Responding to Climate Change as an Emerging Children’s Health Issue
- September 13, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Drs. Young and Devlin: Opportunities to ACT NOW for Infants with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal
- August 9, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Dr. Matthew Gillman: Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) A Nationwide Resource for Child Health Research
- July 12, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Liang & Lewis: DNA methylation of myelinating genes measured in peripheral samples predicts brain white matter volume in a healthy pediatric cohort and Effects of prenatal exposure to Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposure on maternal and newborn metabolome and fetal growth: the PFAS Exposures And Child Health (PEACH) Study
- June 14, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Aris & Smith: Neighborhood Opportunities and Disparities in Child Health Outcomes & Lung Function Measured by Oscillometry in the Healthy Start and PETALS Cohorts
- May 10, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Alison E. Hipwell: What Can the Preconception Period Tell Us About Maternal and Child Health?
- April 12, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Thomas G. O’Connor: Prenatal Origins of Child Neurodevelopmental Outcomes: From Exposures to Mechanisms
- March 8, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Claudia Lugo-Candelas: Perinatal Sleep Health and Offspring Neurodevelopment
- February 8, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Nicole Bush: Social Exposures and Intergenerational Health: Maternal Exposure to Stress and Children’s Development
- January 11, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Annemarie Stroustrup: Hospital-based Phthalate Exposure and Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity
- December 14, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Katherine Sauder: Supporting Healthy Children by Supporting Healthy Pregnancies: A Prebirth Nutrition Perspective
- November 9, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Andreas Neophytou: Bridging Differences Across Cohorts in the Relationship Between Prenatal Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Birth Weight: Transportability of Effect Estimates in the ECHO Consortium
- October 12, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Julie Herbstman: Understanding Changes in Environmental Exposures Over Time in ECHO and Impacts on Children’s Health
- September 14, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Braun/Boyle: Developmental Exposure to PFAS and Childhood/Adolescent Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk
- August 16, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Ferrara/Hedderson/Avalos: Prenatal Mental Health and Lifestyle Exposures in Association With Child Growth and Neurodevelopment
- July 13, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Barry M. Lester: Newborn Neurobehavior Predicts 2 Year Developmental Outcome in Preterm Infants
- June 8, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Jessica Snowden: The Tip of the Iceberg: Understanding the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19
- May 11, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Peter James: Green Spaces and Health: Novel Metrics in Exposure and Outcome Assessment
- April 20, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Rebecca Schmidt: Leveraging the ECHO Population to Examine Trends in Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Conditions
- March 9, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Padula/Boronow: Tell It Like It Is! How to Share Individual Chemical Results With Your ECHO Participants Using DERBI (Digital Exposure Report Back Interface)
- February 9, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
McEvoy/Spindel: Prenatal Vitamin C and In-Utero Smoke: A Novel Approach to Block Some of the Perinatal Origins of Life Long Lung Disease
- January 12, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Cella/Blackwell: Mutuality: What PROMIS Brought to ECHO and What ECHO Brought to PROMIS
- December 8, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Bryan Lau: Dealing With Missing variables in Subset of Cohorts Within ECHO and Issues of Heterogeneity and Representativeness
- November 10, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Christy Porucznik: Systematic Collection of Biospecimens in the Periconceptional Period
- October 18, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Sean Deoni: Decentralizing Pediatric Research: Bringing Science to our Families with Wearables, Nearables, and Mobile Labs
- September 8, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Lyall/Zimmerman: Optimizing Neurodevelopmental Assessments in ECHO: Validating Measures and Capturing Critical Periods of Development
- August 11, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Nathan Stinson, Jr.: Understanding Health Disparities: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
- July 14, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Carmen M. Vélez Vega: Community Engagement and Report Back the Story of PROTECT-ECHO in Puerto Rico
- June 9, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Dr. Johnnye Lewis: Navajo Birth Cohort: Understanding Diversity, Disparity, and Resilience Through ECHO
- May 12, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Kannan/Buckley: Assessment of Exposure to Chemicals of Uncertain Body Burden and Multi-panel Chemical Assay for Analysis in ECHO
- April 13, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Dana Dabelea: Developmental Origins of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes- What We Know and Don’t Know
- February 10, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
O’Shea/Fry: Early Life Origins of Health Among Individuals Born Extremely Preterm
- January 13, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Manish Arora: Application of Tooth Matrix Biomarkers to Environmental Biodynamics
- December 9, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Ann Davis: “Updates to a Trial as a Result of COVID: iAmHealthy in the ISPCTN”
- November 11, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Leve/Neiderhiser: Early Growth and Development Study: How Different Family Constellations Can Inform Science
- October 13, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Carlos Camargo: Heterogeneity of Severe Bronchiolitis: Implications for Acute Management and for Developing Asthma
- September 9, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Heather Volk: Moving ECHO Science Toward Gene-Environment Interaction for Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
- August 12, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Forrest/Ganiban: More than the Absence of Disease: Studying Positive Health in ECHO
- July 8, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Rob McConnell: Vaping: Risks to Children and Youth
- June 17, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Jessie Buckley: Estimating Effects of Exposure Mixtures on Child Health: Novel Methods for Solution-oriented ECHO Research
- May 13, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Emily Oken: Using Cohort Studies to Understand Joint Effects of the Environment and Lifestyle on Health
- April 20, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Jim Gern: An Integrated Approach to Identifying Early Life Causes of Childhood Asthma
- March 11, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Bill Fifer: Sleep: Perchance to Find the Earliest Markers and Mediators of Childhood Disease and Positive Health
- February 12, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Paneth/Hirko: Identifying Opportunities for Implementation Science Approaches in the ECHO Program
- January 8, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Richard Gershon: Advances in Pediatric Measurement Science: Implications in ECHO
- December 11, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Juliette Madan: The Microbiome Across Life Stages: Potential Health Implications and Opportunities for ECHO
- November 13, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp: A Developmental Framework for Studying Social Environmental and Experiential Influences on Children’s Behavioral Health
- October 15, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Leo Trasande: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: A Costly Public Health Threat with Opportunities for Policy Prevention
- June 12, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Singleton/Semmens: Working with Rural Communities to Improve Household Air Quality and Health: Strategies to Guide Environmental Interventions in the ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network
- May 8, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Catherine Monk: Pregnant Women’s Mental Health and Its Influence on the Next Generation: Implications for ECHO Science
- April 10, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Roz Wright: Advancing Discovery in ECHO: Creating a Transdisciplinary Learning Culture Through Use of Life Course Models