Penn-CHOP ECHO Update

In this seminar, Heather Burris, MD, MPH and Sunni Mumford, PhD, will present an update on the work of Penn and CHOP researchers in Cycle 2 of the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort.

A multidisciplinary group of researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn Medicine received a $50 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2023 to study the impact of environmental influences on pregnancy and children’s health. The research program is part of the NIH’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, which funds research to uncover how environmental exposures during preconception, pregnancy and early life affect children’s long-term health.

Following registration below, a Zoom link will be emailed for the webinar.

Heather Burris, MD, MPH is a founding member of Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health. Heather is a practicing neonatologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania who focuses on environmental determinants of adverse pregnancy outcomes and the impact of exposures on health equity.

She studies: greenspace, air pollution, metals and other toxic chemicals, and neighborhood deprivation and segregation. Heather’s research projects enroll study participants during pregnancy or use large datasets to identify beneficial exposures and harm reduction to guide perinatal environmental health policy.

Sunni Mumford, PhD, is the Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Women’s Health Clinical Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Sunni is a reproductive and nutritional epidemiologist whose research focuses on the role of modifiable lifestyle and environmental factors across the life course that affect female and male reproductive health, fertility, pregnancy and child health outcomes. She is particularly interested in the intersection between diet and environmental exposures during critical windows of development, and epidemiologic methods to address these pressing questions.

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