NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Program
The NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program's mission is to enhance the health of children for generations to come. The goal of ECHO is to understand the effects of a broad range of early environmental influences on child health and development. ECHO is dedicated to both learning what factors affect child health and to finding ways to enhance it. The Program studies five areas of health: Pre-, peri-, and postnatal; Upper and Lower Airway; Obesity; Neurodevelopment; and Positive Health.
ECHO Program de-identified data from clinical trials and longitudinal cohort studies is publicly available through the NICHD Data and Specimen Hub (DASH). The ECHO-wide Cohort combines 69 cohorts across the U.S. and allows researchers to access information from a large and diverse population of children followed from the prenatal period through adolescence. The public-use version of ECHO data covers information collected on over 63,000 participants.