Peter James: Green Spaces and Health: Novel Metrics in Exposure and Outcome Assessment ECHO Discovery Summary On May 11, Peter James, ScD, MHS of Harvard presented for ECHO Discovery on the relationship between natural environments, like green spaces and parks, and overall health. Recently, researchers have been able to study this relationship more closely using […]

Jessica Snowden: The Tip of the Iceberg: Understanding the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 ECHO Discovery Summary Key Takeaways: Many people who develop COVID-19 experience long-term effects and ongoing health problems after their infection—a condition known as long COVID. Researchers are still working to understand the best strategies to diagnose and treat long COVID, and these […]

Barry M. Lester: Newborn Neurobehavior Predicts 2 Year Developmental Outcome in Preterm Infants Discovery Summary Key Takeaways: Infants born prematurely are at higher risk for developmental and behavioral disorders, but early detection and treatment can prevent or reduce the severity of these disorders. Doctors and researchers can perform neurobehavioral assessments on newborn infants that evaluate […]

Ferrara/Hedderson/Avalos: Prenatal Mental Health and Lifestyle Exposures in Association With Child Growth and Neurodevelopment Discovery Summary Key Takeaways: Infants born smaller or larger than average for their gestational age, as well as infants who gain weight rapidly after birth, are at increased risk for developing obesity later in life. Previous research has found that diet […]

Braun/Boyle: Developmental Exposure to PFAS and Childhood/Adolescent Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk Discovery Summary Key Takeaways: PFAS are long-lasting chemicals found in some consumer products—like certain types of packaging and cookware—that can contaminate food, water, and air. Virtually all Americans have detectable levels of these substances in their blood with over 100 million Americans having levels […]

Julie Herbstman: Understanding Changes in Environmental Exposures Over Time in ECHO and Impacts on Children's Health Discovery Summary Key Takeaways: Longitudinal studies, like those at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH), can look at exposures over time, which can be used to identify new research areas, inform new policies aimed at reducing these […]

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 Discovery Summary Key Takeaways: The transportability of effects framework is a method researchers can use to determine what research questions can be answered using a given dataset or technique. A […]

Katherine Sauder: Supporting Healthy Children by Supporting Healthy Pregnancies: A Prebirth Nutrition Perspective Discovery Summary Key Takeaways: In recent years, there has been a rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes cases among children at increasingly younger ages, indicating that factors during early infancy - and even during pregnancy and pre-conception - may play a […]

Annemarie Stroustrup: Hospital-based Phthalate Exposure and Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity Key Takeaways: Preterm infants are at an increased risk for a variety of adverse health outcomes, but these outcomes cannot be consistently predicted by factors like gestational age or birth weight. Phthalates are found in many of the medical devices and products used in […]