UW Research

November 3, 2016

NIH Awards Nearly $5 Million to Research Environmental Influences on Child Health

(9/21/16) The UW School of Public Health was awarded about $4.7 million on Wednesday by the National Institutes of Health to investigate how the environment influences neurodevelopment and asthma risk in children.

The grant was part of $157 million in national awards announced by the NIH for a multitude of projects under a seven-year initiative called Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO). Read the full story.