Study timeline: 9/1/2023-5/31/2030
Funding: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Investigator: Mumford, S
The ECHO Study is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded longitudinal study to seek the impact of broad range early environmental influences on child development and health. In 2016, the NIH established the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, an innovative and collaborative research initiative whose mission is to enhance the health of children for generations to come. The overarching scientific goal of ECHO is to advance understanding of the effects of a broad array of early environmental exposures on children’s development and health outcomes with high public health impact. To achieve this goal, the ECHO Program will leverage and expand ECHO Cohort Study Sites that collect information on various environmental exposures (e.g., physical, chemical, social, behavioral, and biological) to support a single ECHO cohort that spawns multiple longitudinal analyses. Over the course of the ECHO study, they expect to recruit 60,000 children and as many primary caregivers across all sites.
The University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) together is one of the 50 sites participating in Cycle 2 of the study with Sunni Mumford, PhD from The University of Pennsylvania and Heather Burris, MD, MPH from CHOP as the Principal Investigators. The Clinical Research Collaboration Unit (CRCU) provides comprehensive project management, data management, research technology services, and website design for the University of Pennsylvania and CHOP ECHO site.