Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Program

About the ECHO Program The ECHO Program has two major components, the ECHO Cohort—for observational research, and the ECHO Institutional Development Award (IDeA) States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (ISPCTN)—for intervention research. Learn more about the ECHO Program through the Program Organizational Chart and the ECHO Strategic Plan. Mission To enhance the health of children for generations to come. ECHO’s Five Health Outcomes ECHO research focuses on five key pediatric outcomes that have a high public health impact: - Pre-, peri-, and postnatal outcomes - Upper and lower airway - Obesity - Neurodevelopment - Positive health ECHO Cohort The primary goal of the ECHO Cohort is to bring diverse participant populations together into one large ECHO Cohort so that ECHO investigators and the wider community of scientists can address research questions about effects of a broad range of early environmental exposures on child health and development, questions that no smaller study can answer alone. The ECHO Cohort follows children and their mothers (and some fathers) long-term. In most cases, it recruited participants prenatally.