1. European Coordination of Birth Cohorts - 2 EC funded projects: ENRIECO & CHICOS

2. EC - FP 7 calls 2008/2009 ENVIRONMENT
ENV Databases based on European cohort studies and their exploitation for advancement of knowledge of environment-health relationships.
ENRIECO: Environmental Health Risks in European Birth Cohorts. Start March 2009.
HEALTH
HEALTH : Birth/Mother - Child Cohorts co-ordination. … identify key areas and gaps in knowledge and develop recommendations for research action at the European level in the context of child health.
CHICOS: Developing a Child Cohort Research Strategy for Europe. Start Jan 2010.
What will ENRIECO Inventory add to this?

3. ENRIECO What will ENRIECO Inventory add to this? Faroes Islands I-III
NFBC 1986/87 – Oulu
LUKAS – Kuopio
BAMSE – Stockolm
HUMIS – Norway
MoBa – Oslo
ABCD – Amsterdam
Generation R – Rotterdam
Koala – Netherlands
PIAMA – Netherlands
DNBC – Denmark
INUENDO– Greenland,
Scandinavia,Poland,
Ukraine
KANC – Kaunas
ALSPAC – Avon region
BIB – Bradford
DUISBERG – Duisberg
GINI-B – Munich, Wesel
LISA – Munich
MAS – Berlin, Dusseldorf,
Freiburg, Mainz, Munich
FLESH – Belgium
PCB – Slovakia
EDEN – Poitiers and Nantes
PELAGIE – Bretagne
ELFE - France
What will ENRIECO Inventory add to this?
APREG – Gyor
Co.N.ER – Bologna
GESP II – Rome
NINFEA – Turin
INMA – Sabadell, Valencia,
Asturias, Gipuzkoa, Granada,
Menorca, Ribera d’Ebre
Generation XXI –
Portugal
RHEA - Heraklion

4. ENRIECO
Aim:
to advance our knowledge on specific environment and health causal relationships in pregnancy and birth cohorts by providing support to exploitation of past or ongoing studies.
Objectives:
Make inventories of birth cohorts: health data, exposure data, biological samples environmental exposure response functions, expertise, access
Evaluate exposure, health and exposure-response data
Make recommendations
Project Coordinator: Mark Nieuwenhuijsen (CREAL)
8 Partners
> 30 European Birth Cohorts
What will ENRIECO Inventory add to this?

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7. CHICOS “Developing a Child Cohort Strategy for Europe”
Project Coordinator:
Martine Vrijheid (CREAL)
Partners:
Danish National Birth Cohort
RHEA, Greece
NINFEA, Italy
Generation R, The Netherlands
MoBa, Norway
ALSPAC, Bristol, UK
INMA
Start: Jan 2010, 3 years
In negotiation stage

8. CHICOS
Aim:
To develop an integrated strategy for mother-child cohort research in Europe  to feed into future call(s) in FP7 and beyond…
Objectives:
To update/extent the inventory
To evaluate existing information from cohorts on child health outcomes and determinants:
Identify gaps in knowledge, geographical coverage, …
Develop recommendations for research action
Focus on key areas of policy concern
To review link between child cohort research and policy and make recommendations to improve the contribution of mother-child cohort research to policy at European level

9. CHICOS Outcome Themes Perinatal outcomes
Asthma, respiratory health, allergies
Obesity, vascular and metabolic health
Neuro-cognitive and behavioural development
Accidents and injuries
Infectious diseases
Childhood cancer
Determinant Themes
Social/cultural determinants and inequalities
Nutrition and physical activity
Life-style exposures
Environmental exposures
Biobanks and genetics
Multiple determinants (integrated risk assessment)
Input from all interested cohorts: workshops, working groups,...