Grants Announced for Secondary Analysis of ECHO Cohort Data on DASH

The NIH ECHO grants announced below aim to advance research in high-priority areas of child health by stimulating the use of ECHO Cohort data by dissertation students and postdoctoral fellows. The awards provide students and fellows the opportunity to study child health outcomes through the analysis of ECHO’s large longitudinal data sets in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Data and Specimen Hub (DASH) repository. The awards will facilitate entry of promising new investigators into the field of early environmental exposures and child health research.

The opportunities, titled “Maximizing the Scientific Value of Data Generated by the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program,” were announced in June 2023 and applications were reviewed in March 2024 by a Special Emphasis Panel convened by the NIH Center for Scientific Review. The 2- to 3-year awards provide students with stipends and funds for research-related costs.  

For further information, contact Clay Mash.

• Charles Alvarado, Pennsylvania State University, Identifying neurocognitive correlates of reading impacted by adversity exposure
• Hannah Appleseth, Oklahoma State University, Tracing the impact of evolving environmental exposure to tobacco, cannabis, and nicotine smoke and vapor emissions on children's mental health symptom trajectories
• Mia Campbell, Johns Hopkins University, Understanding longitudinal trajectories of environmental factors and depression among minoritized adolescents
• Jessie Gleason, Drexel University, Prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure and associations with common childhood infections and allergies: A study of risks and resiliencies in the ECHO Program
• Mary Webb, University of Delaware, Influences of prenatal phthalate exposure on early childhood overweight/obesity and potentially protective dietary strategies
• Jiwon Oh, PhD, University of California at Davis, Prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals and child neurodevelopmental disorders: Mediation by cytokines and DNA methylation