ECHO OIF Update

Key Takeaways:

In this presentation, Dr. Adair will provide an overview of the ECHO Opportunities and Innovation Fund (OIF) and the accomplishments of OIF awardees through 7 cycles of funding. The session will include brief presentations by former OIF recipients that highlight their contributions to ECHO and provide insights into how the OIF has benefitted their career development.

Linda Adair, PhD

CC MPI

Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Biography:

Dr. Adair is a biological anthropologist and nutrition epidemiologist with a research focus child nutrition and growth, and the developmental origins of adult disease. She leads a birth cohort study in the Philippines that has followed children and their mothers for nearly 40 years. She has been a member of the faculty in Nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC for the past 37 years. As MPI of the ECHO Coordinating Center, she has played key roles in the OIF grant solicitations, reviews, and implementation since it began on in ECHO Cycle 1.

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