This month’s Connector showcases a recent ECHO study that explores the relationship between maternal exposure to Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during pregnancy and obesity risk among children. You can learn more about all recent ECHO PFAS studies on ECHOChildren.org’s PFAS research webpage.

Additionally, ECHO is searching for its next Deputy Director to help shape the future of child health research as part of the leadership team for this unique program. I invite you to share this opportunity with your networks. You can learn more here.

We are also pleased to announce our two newest notices of funding opportunities. The awards from these opportunities for postdoctoral fellows and doctoral candidates, respectively, both provide a chance to study child health outcomes by performing secondary analyses of ECHO’s large longitudinal data sets within the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development Data and Specimen Hub (DASH) repository. The knowledge and experience generated by these two opportunities will help ECHO pursue its goal of providing a national resource.