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ECHO DAC Resources for Researchers

The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-wide Cohort Study, a nation-wide collaborative cohort study, combines 69 existing pediatric cohorts to study a range of child health outcomes.  

ECHO Data Analysis Center (DAC) faculty at Johns Hopkins University are leading the development of novel, scientifically rigorous methods for complex consortium studies such as ECHO. We are currently developing methods related to missing data, combining independent cohort studies in analyses, and creating time-varying, novel national “neighborhood”-level measures and datasets.  

Research Spotlight

Green Space and Internalizing or Externalizing Symptoms Among Children

Towe-Goodman N, McArthur KL, Willoughby M, Swingler MM, Wychgram C, Just AC, Kloog I, Bennett DH, Berry D, Hazlehurst MF, James P, Jimenez MP, Lai JS, Leve LD, Gatzke-Kopp L, Schweitzer JB, Bekelman TA, Calub C, Carnell S, Deoni S, D'Sa V, Kelly C, Koinis-Mitchell D, Petriello M, Thapaliya G, Wright RJ, Zhang X, Kress AM; Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes program collaborators. Green Space and Internalizing or Externalizing Symptoms Among Children. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Apr 1;7(4):e245742. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.5742. PMID: 38598238; PMCID: PMC11007572.

Manuscript Spotlight

The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort

Knapp EA, Kress AM, Parker CB, Page GP, McArthur K, Gachigi KK, Alshawabkeh AN, Aschner JL, Bastain TM, Breton CV, Bendixsen CG, Brennan PA, Bush NR, Buss C, Camargo CA Jr, Catellier D, Cordero JF, Croen L, Dabelea D, Deoni S, D'Sa V, Duarte CS, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Farzan SF, Ferrara A, Ganiban JM, Gern JE, Giardino AP, Towe-Goodman NR, Gold DR, Habre R, Hamra GB, Hartert T, Herbstman JB, Hertz-Picciotto I, Hipwell AE, Karagas MR, Karr CJ, Keenan K, Kerver JM, Koinis-Mitchell D, Lau B, Lester BM, Leve LD, Leventhal B, LeWinn KZ, Lewis J, Litonjua AA, Lyall K, Madan JC, McEvoy CT, McGrath M, Meeker JD, Miller RL, Morello-Frosch R, Neiderhiser JM, O'Connor TG, Oken E, O'Shea M, Paneth N, Porucznik CA, Sathyanarayana S, Schantz SL, Spindel ER, Stanford JB, Stroustrup A, Teitelbaum SL, Trasande L, Volk H, Wadhwa PD, Weiss ST, Woodruff TJ, Wright RJ, Zhao Q, Jacobson LP, on behalf of program collaborators for Environmental Influences On Child Health Outcomes. The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-wide Cohort. Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Mar 24:kwad071. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwad071. PMID: 36963379.

Learn with the DAC

Data Analysis Workshops

The DAC created a series of monthly Data Analysis Worships for DAC faculty and statisticians to describe common topics and methods used in ECHO-wide Cohort analyses.  Materials from the workshops can be found in the ECHOPortal Resource Library.

Upcoming Data Analysis Workshops 2024:

SESSIONDATETOPICDAC PRESENTER(S)
110-Oct-24How to develop a research question, analytic sample, flowchart and evaluate selection biasLisa Jacobson, Amii Kress 
214-Nov-24Analyzing Prenatal Chemical Assay Mixtures in ECHOTaylor Etzel 
312-Dec-24Latent class analysis and MplusAutomationRashelle Musci
413-Feb-25Air Pollution Analysis in ECHOAdaeze Wosu 
513-Mar-25EWC Extant Microbiome Data Harmonization, Measures, and Analyses Justine Debelius, Ekaterina Smirnova
610-Apr-25Genetics/genomics (tentative)Genetics Team
78-May-25Epigenetics Rose Schrott