Families

ECHO is a national research initiative sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine what factors give children the highest likelihood of achieving the best health outcomes over their lifetimes. Environmental factors that will be studied include chemical and metals exposures, air pollution, pregnancy habits (diet, activity, medications), feeding habits after birth (breast, bottle, sold food introduction), the built environment (parks, traffic, safety), mental health issues and other social factors, among many others.

The LEAD Center has two ECHO sites:

• ECHO Pediatrics: Participants in the on-going Healthy Start study will be asked if they wish to become part of the ECHO collaboration, allowing the chance to share information with over 80 other such studies, to leverage the amount and quality of all data to find the next generation of answers.  No new participants to the LEAD Center are getting recruited currently. 
• ECHO Pregnancy (Mile High ECHO): Mile High ECHO will focus on collecting information from moms and their babies to understand how the environment and things that happen early in children’s life (including before they are conceived or born) influence a broad range of child health outcomes, including their development, health and well-being. This study is currently enrolling any pregnant person living in the Greater Denver Metropolitan Area that is 16 years old or older AND under 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Visit the Mile High ECHO website

Visit the ECHO website

Visit the NIH ECHO website