NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Steering Committee meeting

The ECHO cohorts address questions of how a broad array of early environmental factors influence child growth and development. The ECHO-wide Cohort is an amalgamation of 71 individual cohorts, most of which started prenatally, following ~50,000 children over time. The invited talk identifies research needs that the ECHO-wide Cohort could fill that might help EPA reduce uncertainties regarding environmental impacts on development and childhood health. The 15-minute talk will use the examples of air pollutants (such as ozone and PM) and chemical exposure (such as to PFAS). It will outline the potential of the ECHO-wide cohort to better define at-risk populations, critical periods of exposure and utilize causal inference to examine the exposure-outcome relationships.

Impact/Purpose

Dr. David Diaz-Sanchez has been invited to speak at the ECHO Steering Committee meeting on October 15th, 2019. The mission of the NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program is to enhance the health of children for generations to come. The ECHO cohorts address questions of how a broad array of early environmental factors influence child growth and development. The talk will address research gaps that the ECHO program could help to address.

Citation

Diazsanchez, D. NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Steering Committee meeting. NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Steering Committee meeting, Washington, DC, October 15 - 16, 2019.