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The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program investigates how exposure to a range of environmental factors in early development influences the health of children and adolescents. This page provides information on all funded projects, active and archived funding opportunities, and background documents and notices related to these funding opportunities.

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Project title	ECHO Laboratory Core
Awardees	Awardees: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Award Date	September 1, 2023
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-22-016
Summary	The laboratory core facilitates collection and processing of biospecimens; manages the ECHO Cohort Biorepository; performs a wide range of biospecimen assays to support ECHO Cohort analyses, and coordinates biospecimen information and assay results.

Project title	ECHO Pregnancy Cohort Study Sites
Awardees	Awardees: Baylor College of Medicine Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Hackensack University Medical Center Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. Kaiser Foundation Research Institute Medical University of South Carolina Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences University of California at Davis University of Colorado Denver University of Miami Coral Gables University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania University of Washington
Award Date	September 1, 2023
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-22-017
Summary	These ECHO Cohort Study Sites will recruit new pregnant participants from diverse populations, their resulting offspring, and, if available, the conceiving partner; and will develop and implement the ECHO Cohort Preconception Pilot Study.

Project title	ECHO Pregnancy and Pediatric Cohort Study Sites
Awardees	Awardees: Avera Mckennan Columbia University Health Sciences Dartmouth College Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York University School of Medicine Northeastern University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh University of Rochester University of Utah University of Wisconsin-Madison Vanderbilt University Medical Center Washington University
Award Date	September 1, 2023
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-22-018
Summary	These ECHO Cohort Study Sites will follow up existing ECHO Cohort participants; recruit new pregnant participants from diverse populations, their resulting offspring, and, if available, the conceiving partner; and will develop and implement the ECHO Cohort Preconception Pilot Study.

Project title	ECHO Pediatric Cohort Study Sites
Awardees	Awardees: Drexel University Emory University Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Henry Ford Health System Kaiser Foundation Research Institute Massachusetts General Hospital Oregon Health & Science University Rhode Island Hospital Seattle Children's Hospital University of California at Davis University of Colorado Denver University of North Carolina Chapel Hill University of Oregon University of Tennessee Health Science Center University of Wisconsin-Madison Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Award Date	September 1, 2023
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-22-019
Summary	These ECHO Cohort Study Sites will follow up existing ECHO Cohort participants.

Project title	ECHO Measurement Core
Awardees	Awardees: Northwestern University at Chicago
Award Date	September 1, 2023
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-22-020
Summary	The measurement core is responsible for developing and refining measures for the ECHO Cohort Protocol, assist all ECHO Cohort Study Sites, Cores, and Centers in implementing and evaluating the ECHO Cohort Protocol; and incorporate new and revised measures to advance ECHO Cohort science.

Project title	ECHO Coordinating Center
Awardees	Awardees: Duke University
Award Date	September 1, 2023
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-22-021
Summary	The coordinating center provides comprehensive operational leadership and organizational infrastructure to manage and coordinate all ECHO Cohort activities.

Project title	ECHO Data Analysis Center
Awardees	Awardees: Johns Hopkins University
Award Date	September 1, 2023
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-22-022
Summary	The Data Analysis Center is responsible for leading, standardizing, and integrating ECHO Cohort Protocol data capture, management, and storage through a central data system.

Project title	Clinical Sites for the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network
Awardees	Awardees: Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute Avera McKennan Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center MaineHealth Medical University of South Carolina Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware Rhode Island Hospital University of Kansas Medical Center University of Louisville University of Mississippi Medical Center University of Montana University of Nebraska Medical Center University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center University of Vermont and State Agricultural College West Virginia University
Award Date	August 30, 2025
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-24-008
Summary	The Clinical Sites of the ISPCTN will conduct multicenter clinical trials research, assuring the participation of children living in rural or underserved communities located in IDeA states, and build pediatric research capacity for IDeA states to support the conduct of clinical trials of relevance to rural or underserved children in IDeA states.

Project title	Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network
Awardees	Awardees: University of Kansas Medical Center
Award Date	June 11, 2025
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-24-009
Summary	The DCOC will support the Clinical Sites of the ISPCTN to conduct multicenter clinical trials research, assuring the participation of children living in rural or underserved communities located in IDeA states, and build pediatric research capacity for IDeA states to support the conduct of clinical trials of relevance to rural or underserved children in IDeA states.

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