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SUMMARY:Jean Kerver\, PhD\, MSc\, RD: Incorporating Early Life Micronutrient Status in ECHO studies of Neurodevelopment
DESCRIPTION:Incorporating Early Life Micronutrient Status in ECHO studies of Neurodevelopment \nKey Takeaways: \nIt 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 than dietary intake\, and its impact on neurodevelopment. She reviews often overlooked interactions between nutrients and environmental toxicants. Dr. Kerver suggests areas where ECHO can better leverage existing knowledge about nutrition’s impact on neurodevelopment. She advocates for greater integration of these interactions in ECHO analyses. \n \nJean Kerver\, PhD\, MSc\, RD  \nDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics\nCollege of Human Medicine\, Traverse City Campus\nMichigan State University\nContact Principal Investigator of ECHO Award 129 \nSpeaker Biography: \nJean Kerver\, PhD\, MSC\, RD\, is the contact Principal Investigator of ECHO Award 129 at Michigan State University. An epidemiologist and registered dietitian\, Dr. Kerver investigates perinatal causes of childhood disorders and develops strategies to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors among families experiencing poverty or other challenges. Based in Traverse City\, Dr. Kerver supports MSU’s College of Human Medicine rural research network initiative. Her primary research focuses on micronutrients and neurodevelopment\, with an emphasis on biomarkers and exposures. \nDownload the slide presentation
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/jean-kerver-phd-msc-rd-incorporating-early-life-micronutrient-status-in-echo-studies-of-neurodevelopment/
CATEGORIES:environmental,innovations,neuro,pregnancy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T130000
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DTSTAMP:20260412T165322
CREATED:20251208T163911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T161334Z
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SUMMARY:Allan C. Just\, PhD: Air pollution and temperature as spatial factors impacting child health
DESCRIPTION:Air pollution and temperature as spatial factors impacting child health \nKey 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 models\, integrate diverse data sources\, and improve the accuracy of environmental health studies. Dr. Just also discusses technical challenges\, model comparisons\, and the importance of analyzing short-term exposures and humidity’s role in heat-related health outcomes. \n \nAllan C. Just\, PhD \nNazareth-Ferguson Family University Associate Professor \nof Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and \nInstitute at Brown for Environment and Society \nSpeaker Biography: Allan C. Just\, PhD\, is an Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society at Brown University. Dr. Just specializes in environmental exposure modeling and epidemiology\, leveraging satellite data and earth observations to enhance exposure assessment for large health registries and cohort studies. Dr. Just is recognized for advancing methodologies in air pollution and temperature modeling to support child health research. \nDownload the slide presentation
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/allan-c-just-phd-air-pollution-and-temperature-as-spatial-factors-impacting-child-health/
CATEGORIES:airways,environmental,innovations,outcomes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T130000
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SUMMARY:Christine Loftus\, MS\, MPH\, Ph.D: Where there’s smoke… there’s action?  What ECHO can do to protect children from wildfire smoke
DESCRIPTION:Where there’s smoke… there’s action? What ECHO can do to protect children from wildfire smoke \nCLICK HERE TO JOIN THE PRESENTATION VIA TEAMS \nKey Takeaways: \nWildfire 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 event. Dr. Loftus’s presentation will describe wildfire smoke research in progress across the ECHO Program\, including a new study collecting time-sensitive data after smoke events\, aiming to characterize short-term health impacts and parents’ efforts to reduce child smoke exposure. Dr. Loftus will also discuss potential future research directions for the program\, focusing on solution-oriented studies that leverage key strengths of the ECHO Cohort. \n \nChristine Loftus\, MS\, MPH\, Ph.D\nClinical Associate Professor\nEnvironmental and Occupational Health Sciences\nUniversity of Washington \nProject Director  within Cohort 306\nAward PI: ECHO Opportunities and Innovation Fund (OIF)\nCo-chair: ECHO Air Pollution and Wildfire Smoke Interest Group \nSpeaker Biography: \nDr. Christine Loftus is a Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington. Her research program focuses on environmental exposures and child health\, including through applications of advanced study designs and statistical methods\, community-engaged methods for remote and rural settings\, and intervention research. She served as the science director of the PATHWAYS Consortium in ECHO Cycle 1 and is currently the project director of a new ECHO site in the Yakima Valley\, recruiting new pregnancies. She’s the co-chair of the ECHO Air Pollution and Wildfire Smoke Interest Group and is principal investigator of an ECHO Opportunities and Innovation Fund award in progress\, The Development and Evaluation of a Wildfire Smoke Protocol for Rapid Response (WiSPRR). \nKeywords: Wildfires\, smoke\, interventions\, disaster response \nDownload the slide presentation
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/christine-loftus-ms-mph-ph-d-where-theres-smoke-theres-action-what-can-echo-do-to-protect-children-from-wildfire-smoke/
CATEGORIES:environmental,innovations,outcomes
ORGANIZER;CN="Samia Baluch":MAILTO:saimia.baluch@duke.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250813T130000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Maxwell Mansolf - Predictors of Child Eating and Parent Feeding in the ECHO Cohort
DESCRIPTION:Predictors of Child Eating and Parent Feeding in the ECHO Cohort \nKey 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\, the research identified key predictors of these behaviors\, revealing both independent and interdependent patterns. Results showed that caregiver and child age were the strongest predictors\, followed by caregiver stress\, child BMI\, and social support. These findings highlight potential intervention opportunities and provide new insights into the multifaceted nature of family food dynamics and their implications for child nutritional health. \n \nMaxwell Mansolf\, PhD \nAssistant Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences \nNorthwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine \nCo-PI\, ECHO Measurement Core \nSpeaker Biography: \nDr. Maxwell Mansolf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. His research focuses on psychometric methods and child health outcomes\, with expertise in classical test theory\, item response theory\, and computerized adaptive testing. Dr. Mansolf serves as a data scientist on large-scale longitudinal studies\, including the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort\, where he manages and analyzes harmonized data from 69 cohorts to advance understanding of child health and development. His recent work includes developing assessment tools such as the NIH Baby Toolbox neurodevelopmental assessment system and contributing to psychometric research published in venues including Multivariate Behavioral Research and the Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling. He is proficient in R statistical programming and recently published the AlignLV package to CRAN. Dr. Mansolf is also author of an upcoming Cambridge University Press textbook on MATLAB programming for non-technical audiences. \nDownload the slide presentation
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/dr-maxwell-mansolf-predictors-of-child-eating-and-parent-feeding-in-the-environmental-influences-on-child-health-outcomes-echo-study/
CATEGORIES:environmental,innovations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T130000
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SUMMARY:Sean Deoni: Decentralizing Pediatric Research: Bringing Science to our Families with Wearables\, Nearables\, and Mobile Labs
DESCRIPTION:Sean Deoni: Decentralizing Pediatric Research: Bringing Science to our Families with Wearables\, Nearables\, and Mobile Labs\nECHO Discovery Summary\nSean Deoni\, PhD of Brown University\, shared his research on MRI techniques and the use of wearable devices to study brain maturation in infants and children. \nDr. Deoni discussed how his study’s use of mobile devices helped measure the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on neurocognitive outcomes. When they found a steep decline in both verbal and non-verbal cognitive development among young children in 2020 and 2021\, they used wearables to investigate why. \nUsing a device placed on a child’s chest\, they were able to remotely measure language activity in homes of children from birth to age 2. They found that the number of adult words the children heard\, vocalizations they made\, and back-and-forth conversational interactions per hour declined steeply\, while TV usage went up. Using wearables\, they also found that infant sleep duration increased in 2020 and 2021 compared to pre-pandemic times\, while the number of naps per day decreased. \nDr. Deoni said that\, although mobile devices may lack the accuracy and sensitivity of in-person measurements\, they also allow researchers to take measurements from a larger number of people over longer periods of time. Work is ongoing to use these devices to examine potential influences of infant/child physical activity\, outdoor exposure\, and air quality. \nSpeaker: \nSean Deoni\, PhD \nBrown University \n  \n  \nSpeaker Bio: \nI’m an MRI physicist by training\, but a pediatric neuroscientist by passion. PhD in MR Physics from the University of Western Ontario and post-docs at King’s College\, London and Oxford University where I developed MRI techniques to study brain maturation in infants and children. This work was extended at the Advanced Baby Imaging Lab at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital\, where we initiated some of the largest longitudinal studies of pediatric neurodevelopment (now the cornerstone of our ECHO project). Over the past 3 years I’ve also been involved with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation\, initiating a new project to assess low field MRI scanners in 25 low and middle income countries\, and extend our ECHO project globally. \nDate: Monday\, October 18th\, 1 to 2pm ET \nSlides
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/sean-deoni-decentralizing-pediatric-research-bringing-science-to-our-families-with-wearables-nearables-and-mobile-labs/
CATEGORIES:innovations,neuro
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200617T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200617T140000
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SUMMARY:Jessie Buckley: Estimating Effects of Exposure Mixtures on Child Health: Novel Methods for Solution-oriented ECHO Research
DESCRIPTION:Estimating Effects of Exposure Mixtures on Child Health: Novel Methods for Solution-oriented ECHO Research\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: \n \nJessie Buckley\, PhD\, MPH \nJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health \nECHO Data Analysis Center (DAC) \n  \n  \nSpeaker Bio:  Jessie Buckley is an environmental and pediatric/perinatal epidemiologist\, working on research to inform environmental policies targeted at improving children’s health. Her work looks at developmental origins of health and disease framework and focuses on determining effects of early life exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals on child physical growth and development. Using molecular epidemiology and advanced statistical approaches\, she has conducted several studies evaluating the role of environmental chemical exposures in the development of childhood obesity. She has also researched the utility of biomarkers of exposure to several classes of environmental chemicals that have widespread human exposure\, including phthalates. \nTopic:  Interest in understanding the combined effects of multiple exposures (i.e.\, mixtures) on children’s health is rapidly increasing\, with a related proliferation of methods for estimating these effects. In this talk\, Jessie will demonstrate two useful approaches for estimating mixtures effects – Bayesian kernel machine regression and quantile g-computation – with an application to endocrine disrupting chemical mixtures and childhood bone health. In addition\, Jessie will introduce a novel statistical framework to advance solution-oriented mixtures research in ECHO by more directly informing practices\, programs\, and policies to improve children’s health. \nDate: Wednesday\, June 10\, 1 to 2pm \nSlides
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/jessiebuckley-estimating-effects-of-exposure-mixtures-on-child-health-novel-methods-for-solution-oriented-echo-research/
LOCATION:WebEx
CATEGORIES:innovations,positive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T140000
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CREATED:20200102T183036Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Gershon: Advances in Pediatric Measurement Science: Implications in ECHO
DESCRIPTION:Advances in Pediatric Measurement Science: Implications in ECHO\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: \nRichard Gershon \nNorthwestern University \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n*If you would like CME credits for attending this presentation\, please email Katherine.Simos@duke.edu* \nAbout the Speaker:\nDr. Gershon is the Vice Chair for Research in Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Gershon has had a robust career in Patient Report Outcomes (PRO) and Performance Outcomes as he has acted as the principal investigator for the NIH Toolbox for the Assessment of Neurological Function and Behavior and the NIH Roadmap Patient – Reporting Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Technical Center. He has served as PI\, MPI or co-investigator for over 70 NIH\, DoD\, and Foundation awards. \nTopic Areas: PRO Core\, Person-reported outcomes\, Patient-reported outcomes \nDate: Wednesday\, January 8 11\, 1 to 2pm \nSlides\n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/richard-gershon-advances-in-pediatric-measurement-science-implications-in-echo/
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CATEGORIES:innovations
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