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