• Christy Porucznik: Systematic Collection of Biospecimens in the Periconceptional Period

    Christy Porucznik: Systematic Collection of Biospecimens in the Periconceptional Period ECHO Discovery Summary Traditional studies investigating environmental exposures during pregnancy often recruit women during their first trimester, and as a result these studies exclude data from around the time of conception and create an incomplete and biased understanding of the exposure’s effect. Environmental exposures experienced […]

  • Dr. Maxwell Mansolf – Predictors of Child Eating and Parent Feeding in the ECHO Cohort

    Predictors of Child Eating and Parent Feeding in the ECHO Cohort Key Takeaways: Dr. Mansolf will present findings from a study using data from over 3,500 children in the ECHO cohort to examine the complex relationships between child eating behaviors and parental feeding practices. Using machine learning approaches such as random forests and regression trees, […]

  • Christine Loftus, MS, MPH, Ph.D: Where there’s smoke… there’s action? What ECHO can do to protect children from wildfire smoke

    Where there's smoke... there's action? What ECHO can do to protect children from wildfire smoke CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE PRESENTATION VIA TEAMS Key Takeaways: Wildfire smoke exposure is a growing public health crisis, causing significant harm to children nationwide. In 2025 alone, an estimated 12,000 ECHO participants have experienced at least one serious smoke […]

  • Allan C. Just, PhD: Air pollution and temperature as spatial factors impacting child health

    Air pollution and temperature as spatial factors impacting child health Key Takeaways: For this talk, Dr. Just explores how air pollution and temperature act as spatial factors impacting child health, with a focus on advanced exposure modeling using satellite data and machine learning. It highlights unique opportunities within the ECHO program to build spatiotemporal exposure […]

  • Jean Kerver, PhD, MSc, RD: Incorporating Early Life Micronutrient Status in ECHO studies of Neurodevelopment

    Incorporating Early Life Micronutrient Status in ECHO studies of Neurodevelopment Key Takeaways: It is known that early life nutrition, including pregnancy diet and infant feeding, is critical for brain development, yet the impact of the suboptimal micronutrient status of the US population is unknown. In this presentation, Dr. Kerver discusses micronutrient status, highlighting biomarkers rather […]

 

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