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

Clinical Sites for the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network - 3 (UG1 Clinical Trial Required)

RFA-OD-24-008

Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network - 3 (U24 Clinical Trial Required—Infrastructure)

RFA-OD-24-009

More information and resources related to these funding opportunities »

Funded Research

Project title ECHO Laboratory Core
Awardees

Awardees:

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:

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
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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
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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:

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:

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: 

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

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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 Clinical Sites for the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network
Awardees

Awardees:

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: 

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

ECHO Laboratory Core

RFA-OD-22-016

October 21, 2022

November 21, 2022

ECHO Pregnancy Cohort Study Sites

RFA-OD-22-017

October 21, 2022

November 29, 2022

ECHO Pregnancy and Pediatric Cohort Study Sites

RFA-OD-22-018

October 21, 2022

November 21, 2022

ECHO Pediatric Cohort Study Sites

RFA-OD-22-019

October 21, 2022

November 21, 2022

ECHO Measurement Core

RRFA-OD-22-020

October 21, 2022

November 21, 2022

ECHO Coordinating Center

RRFA-OD-22-021

October 21, 2022

November 21, 2022

ECHO Data Analysis Center

RRFA-OD-22-022

October 21, 2022

November 21, 2022

Maximizing the Scientific Value of Data Generated by the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program: Dissertation Grant (R36)

RFA-OD-23-020

October 01, 2023

November 01, 2023

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

October 01, 2023

November 01, 2023

Maximizing the Scientific Value of Data Generated by the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program: Dissertation Grant (R36)

RFA-OD-23-020

October 01, 2023

November 01, 2023

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

Clinical Sites for the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (UG1)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 January 22, 2024