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Funding Opportunities

The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program Office has released the following Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs):

ECHO is an extramurally funded program maintained within the Office of the Director at the NIH, with the mission to enhance the health of children for generations to come.

The goal of the Ruth L. Kirschstein ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) is to provide opportunities for postdoctoral fellows to study child health outcomes through the secondary analyses of ECHO’s large longitudinal data sets within the Eunice Kennedy Shriver ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Child Health and Development Ìý°ù±ð±è´Ç²õ¾±³Ù´Ç°ù²â.

The goal of the Dissertation Grant (R36) is to support doctoral candidates studying applicable areas of child health for the completion of their doctoral dissertation research project. This funding opportunity will provide students working on dissertations the opportunity to access the ECHO data within the DASH repository.

ECHO’s DASH data set integrates deidentified longitudinal data from more than 41,000 participants across the U.S. and focuses on child health outcomes including pre-, peri- and postnatal outcomes; upper and lower airway health; obesity; neurodevelopment; and positive health.

Available deidentified data includes:

• Demographic information including race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and education
• Early development data including growth, milestones, physical activity, and sleep
• Environmental exposure data including physical, chemical, psychosocial, and natural and built environments
• Pregnancy and birth information including maternal diet and physical activity, maternal smoking during pregnancy, weight gain, and delivery outcomes
• Data related to public health crises including surveys on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

NIH encourages applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups as described in the Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity (NOT-OD-20-031).

If you have questions, please reach out to Clay Mash: clay.mash@nih.gov.

Pre-Recorded Informational Webinars

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions — Maximizing the Scientific Value of Data Generated by the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, RFA-OD-23-019, RFA-OD-23-020