Funding Sources

ECHORN is funded by grants from the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (#U54MD010711, #U54MD010711-05SI, #U24MD006938) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (#R01HL143785).


The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities envisions an America in which all populations will have an equal opportunity to live long, healthy, and productive lives. To accomplish this, NIMHD raises national awareness about the prevalence and impact of health disparities and disseminates effective individual-, community-, and population-level interventions to reduce and encourage elimination of health disparities.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s strategic goals cut across the Institute’s heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) research portfolio and are rooted in a desire to understand and promote health and resilience, stimulate discoveries in the causes of disease, enable the translation of discoveries from basic research into clinical practice, and foster training and mentoring of emerging scientists and physicians.