Nathan Stinson, Jr.: Understanding Health Disparities: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You ECHO Discovery Summary Understanding Health Disparities: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You Nathan Stinson, Jr., PhD, […]

Bryan Lau: Dealing With Missing variables in Subset of Cohorts Within ECHO and Issues of Heterogeneity and Representativeness ECHO Discovery Summary Bryan Lau, PhD, MHS, ScM of Johns Hopkins University […]

McEvoy/Spindel: Prenatal Vitamin C and In-Utero Smoke: A Novel Approach to Block Some of the Perinatal Origins of Life Long Lung Disease ECHO Discovery Summary On February 9, Cindy T. […]

Padula/Boronow: Tell It Like It Is! How to Share Individual Chemical Results With Your ECHO Participants Using DERBI (Digital Exposure Report Back Interface) ECHO Discovery Summary On March 9, Amy […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Nicole Bush: Social Exposures and Intergenerational Health: Maternal Exposure to Stress and Children’s Development Key Takeaways: Childhood adversity and pregnancy stress can have lasting effects on children’s health and wellbeing. […]

Claudia Lugo-Candelas: Perinatal Sleep Health and Offspring Neurodevelopment Key Takeaways: Many pregnant people struggle with disrupted sleep and assume that it is a normal part of pregnancy, but there are […]

Thomas G. O'Connor: Prenatal Origins of Child Neurodevelopmental Outcomes: From Exposures to Mechanisms Key Takeaways: Many common exposures during pregnancy have been linked with neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. It’s important […]

Alison E. Hipwell: What Can the Preconception Period Tell Us About Maternal and Child Health? Key Takeaways: Previous research shows that maternal stress and distress during pregnancy can be linked […]

Aris: Neighborhood Opportunities and Disparities in Child health Outcomes Smith: Lung Function Measured by Oscillometry in the Healthy Start and PETALS Cohorts Key Takeaways: Izzuddin M. Aris, PhD (Harvard Medical […]

Liang: 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. Lewis: DNA methylation […]

Dr. Matthew Gillman: Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) A Nationwide Resource for Child Health Research Speakers: Matthew W. Gillman, MD, SM National Institutes of Health Director, Environmental influences […]

Drs. Young and Devlin: Opportunities to ACT NOW for Infants with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Key Takeaways:  The opioid crisis has increased the number of infants who are exposed to […]

Dr. Claudia Thompson: Identifying and Responding to Climate Change as an Emerging Children’s Health Issue Key Takeaways:  Dr. Claudia Thompson's presentation will focus on the following topics: Overview of the […]

Dr. Wei Perng: Understanding the natural history of cardiovascular health across early-life Key Takeaways:  This talk describes cohort-specific findings regarding the natural history of cardiovascular health in children and adolescents, […]

Prenatal Air Pollution Exposure and Risk of Autism: New Insight from ECHO Cohorts Key Takeaways:  In the past decade, air pollution has substantially declined in the US because of policies […]

Using Knowledge-Driven AI to Predict and Explain Environmental Health Outcomes in Mothers and Children Key Takeaways: As increasingly rich and complex environmental health data are collected for secondary analysis, new […]

Untargeted Analysis of Microsamplers: The Utility of Dried Capillary Blood Spots for Exposome Research Key Takeaways: Researchers use blood samples to measure the levels of various chemicals and metabolites related […]

Cross-Cohort Mixture Analysis: A Data Integration Approach with Applications on Child Health Outcomes Key Takeaways:  Integrating data across multiple studies can enhance the statistical power of analyses and help researchers […]

Penn-CHOP ECHO: Applying causal inference methods to address pressing questions in environmental children’s health Key Takeaways:  Exposures during early life can set the stage for lifelong health outcomes and well-being. […]

Unveiling Maternal Health Disparities: Addressing the Impact of Racism Key Takeaways*: Dr. Amutah-Onukagha noted that: Historically, women of color have disproportionately experienced reproductive injustices exacerbated by medical bias, unequal distribution […]

Fish Consumption during Pregnancy and Impacts on Child Health Kristen Lyall, ScD (A.J. Drexel Autism Institute); Emily Oken, MD, MPH (Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute); Margaret […]

Emerging Trends and Treatments in Pediatric Obesity Key Takeaways*: Dr. Chan noted that: In recent years, there has been a concerning increase in rates of pediatric obesity and obesity-related complications, […]

Epigenetic Regulators in Human Milk: Opportunities in ECHO with a Focus on miRNAs Key Takeaways:* MiRNAs, small molecules known to regulate the expression of certain genes, represent a major class […]

The Early Life Microbiome and Disrupting Exposures Key Takeaways*: Dr. Dominguez-Bello noted that: During a vaginal birth, babies are exposed to dense bacterial communities, and throughout early childhood, they continue […]

Multi-Omic Data Illuminates the Placenta's Role as a Mediator Between Prenatal EDC Exposures and Preterm Birth Key Takeaways: Preterm birth is one of the leading causes of infant morbidity and […]

Microbiomes of Pregnancy and Infancy: Implications for Child Health Outcomes Key Takeaways: ECHO cohort sites have collected longitudinal microbiome samples and data spanning pregnancy through adolescence from a geographically, socioeconomically, […]

Applications of Skin Color Scales to the Study of Racial Inequality Key Takeaways: In this brief presentation we discuss the benefits and challenges of utilizing skin color scales to study […]

An Introduction to the NIH Baby Toolbox Key Takeaways: This presentation provides an overview of the NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox, or “Baby Toolbox,” a new neuropsychological, cognitive, motor, and […]

Stakeholder Engagement in Pediatric Disability Research: Why and How to do it Key Takeaways: To study child health, researchers must also study child disability. Research to improve child outcomes necessarily […]

Opportunities and challenges for subfecundity research in ECHO Key Takeaways: Since the advent of assisted reproduction, there have been questions about potential impacts on child health, with neurodevelopment being a […]

Does adherence to U.S. dietary guidelines during pregnancy reduce exposure to over 50 contemporary and understudied chemicals? Key Takeaways: Diet is an important source of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals […]