ECHO Boston

ECHO, which stands for Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, is a program by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intended to understand how our environment affects child health and development. Read more about the ECHO program here.

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In ECHO Boston, we will follow children born at a similar period of time, and collect information from them at particular ages. By following the same people over time, we will be able to study how and why their health changes as they get older. 

 

For this new site, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute (HPHCI) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) are partnering together to recruit pregnant people. Recruitment will take place at BIDMC and its affiliated site, Bowdoin Street Health Center. These participants and their children will form a new cohort for the ECHO study in Boston.