Advancing the Science of Children's Positive Health in the National Institutes of Health Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Research Program

Launched by the National Institutes of Health in 2016, the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program is a 7-year initiative designed to advance knowledge of environmental exposure effects on the health of the nation's children (for more information, see www.echochildren.org). ECHO includes 84 individual cohort studies, with an anticipated combined sample of more than 50 000 children. These studies will contribute existing and newly collected data on a broad array of environmental exposures, which are measured from before birth to 5 years of age, and outcome data in four domains assessed from birth through adolescence: airways (eg, asthma); obesity; pre-, peri-, and postnatal outcomes (eg, low birth weight, small for gestational age); and, neurodevelopment (eg, autism, cognition).

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