Funding

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.

New Funding Opportunities

The ECHO Program Office has released the following Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs):

Title	ID Number
Maximizing the Scientific Value of Data Generated by the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32)	RFA-OD-23-019
Maximizing the Scientific Value of Data Generated by the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program: Dissertation Grant (R36)	RFA-OD-23-020

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Funded Research

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	ECHO Children’s Health and Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR) Core
Awardees	Awardees: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Research Triangle Institute University of Minnesota Wadsworth Center Westat, Inc.
Award Date	September 21, 2016
Funding opportunity	PA-16-046
Summary	A consortium resource for laboratory and statistical analyses of personal environmental exposures in existing and future collections of biological samples.

Project title	ECHO Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) Core
Awardees	Awardees: Northwestern University at Chicago
Award Date	September 21, 2016
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-16-003
Summary	Collects, maintains, and provides PRO information for consortium researchers.

Project title	Clinical Sites for the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network
Awardees	Awardees: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Arkansas Children's Research Institute Avera McKennan Dartmouth College Louisiana State University Pennington Biomedical Research Center Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children Rhode Island Hospital University of Hawaii at Manoa 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 South Carolina at Columbia University of Vermont and State Agricultural College West Virginia University
Award Date	September 1, 2020
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-19-026
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 Arkansas
Award Date	September 1, 2020
Funding opportunity	RFA-OD-19-025
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.

Past Funding Opportunities

Title	ID Number	Earliest Submission Date	Application Due Date
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) – IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (ISPCTN) Program (Admin Supp – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	NOT-OD-22-077		May 23, 2022
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program Research (Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	NOT-OD-21-093		May 26, 2021
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH ECHO Cooperative Agreements (Admin Supp – Clinical Trial Not Allowed) for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – related Research	NOT-OD-20-107		June 29, 2020
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program Research (Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)	NOT-OD-20-098		June 1, 2020
Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network - 2 (U24 Clinical Trial Required - Infrastructure) FAQ for this funding opportunity	RFA-OD-19-025	November 2, 2019	December 2, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization
Clinical Sites for the ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network - 2 (UG1 Clinical Trial Required) FAQ for this funding opportunity	RFA-OD-19-026	November 2, 2019	December 2, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization
Clinical Sites for the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (UG1) FAQ for this funding opportunity Notice of Correction to Funding Opportunity Description	RFA-OD-16-001	March 15, 2016	April 15, 2016, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization
Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (U24) FAQ for this funding opportunity	RFA-OD-16-002	March 15, 2016	April 15, 2016, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization
Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes: Patient Reported Outcomes Research Resource Center Core (ECHO PRO Core) (U24) FAQ for this funding opportunity Updated Application Forms Package Notice of Correction to Application Instructions	RFA-OD-16-003	March 15, 2016	April 15, 2016, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization
Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Pediatric Cohorts (UG3/UH3) Updated Application Forms Package	RFA-OD-16-004	March 15, 2016	April 15, 2016, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization
Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Data Analysis Center (U24) Updated Application Forms Package	RFA-OD-16-005	March 15, 2016	April 15, 2016, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization
Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Coordinating Center (U2C) FAQ for this funding opportunity Updated Application Forms Package	RFA-OD-16-006	March 15, 2016	April 15, 2016, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization
Limited Competition: Exposure Analysis Services for the Environmental Influences on Children's Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program (Admin Supplement)	PA-16-046	March 15, 2016	April 15, 2016, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization

This page last reviewed on September 25, 2023

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