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Louisiana’s Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, or ECHO program, has secured a share of $13 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH. The award, which is for the program’s third award cycle, will support its efforts and research for five years.
Founded in 2016, Louisiana’s ECHO program unites researchers from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Ochsner Health System, Tulane University, and LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans with leading pediatric clinicians at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital in New Orleans. This collaboration brings together research capabilities and two free-standing children’s hospitals in the state, with a third under construction.