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. 2021 Jun 22;4:769. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02316-6

Fig. 2. Opportunities in ECHO for understanding the influences of the environment on child health across generations.

Fig. 2

The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program, created in 2016, is an NIH-funded national program that supports existing observational and intervention studies to answer important questions about key developmental areas, including pre-, peri-, and early postnatal outcomes, airway conditions, obesity, and neurodevelopment. Exposures of interest include nutrition, tobacco smoke, pollutants, physical activity, drug usage, and stress. The ECHO program offers a unique platform and opportunity in which to explore the health effects of exposures, including more contemporaneous ones, that are present or have far-reaching consequences across generations.