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.
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 Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. DAC faculty and statisticians describe common topics and methods used in ECHO-wide Cohort analyses. Workshops will be a combination of didactic lecture on current best methodological practices and interactive labs with pre-prepared datasets and code. Topics include practical guide for combining cohorts in collaborative studies, novel methods for missing data in consortium studies, and microbiome and epigenetics methods. Materials from the workshops can be found in the ECHOPortal Resource Library.
Analysis Workshops will restart in January 2024!
Summer Institute
DAC Investigator Justine Debelius will be teaching a new Summer Institute Course on Bioinformatics Strategies for Microbiome Data. For more information, please click here.
JSM Symposium
Session 1432, “Methods for large multi-cohort data integration in presence of missing and imbalanced covariates” has been accepted for the 2023 JSM Invited Program, and is scheduled for 8/10/2023 from 8:30:00 AM - 10:20:00 AM at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.