TRAK Portal: a website and phone tool to share environmental exposure results with participants
Official title: Translating Research to Action & Knowledge (TRAK) Portal: a web-based platform for report-back of research results
Funded at Oregon State University · NIH-11322065 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This project will build an easy-to-use website and smartphone tool that gives people and communities clear, visual reports of their chemical exposure results.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Oregon State University NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Corvallis, United States) |
| Project start | May 16, 2024 |
| Project end | April 30, 2028 |
| Funding year | 2026 |
| Award (this year) | $410,222 |
| NIH project number | 5R01ES036256-03 |
| Project ID | NIH-11322065 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Ideal candidates are people who took part in environmental exposure studies—especially those who wore silicone wristbands—or community members interested in seeing local exposure data.
✕Less likely to help
People who were not enrolled in participating studies or whose data come from unsupported tests or formats may not receive results through the portal initially.
What this research studies
If you took part in an environmental health study, the TRAK Portal will let you see your individual chemical exposure data in clear charts and maps and compare your results to other groups or regions. The team will design the site to work on phones and computers, starting with data from silicone wristband exposure monitors and expanding to other study data types. They will use lessons from 17 prior report-back studies involving more than 900 participants to guide design, test usability with community members, and publish the code as open source so other researchers can reuse it. The portal will include ethical safeguards and options to present information at individual and community levels.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, participants could get understandable, actionable exposure information that helps them reduce harmful exposures and supports community-level health action.
How similar studies have gone: Previous report-back projects have helped participants understand exposure results and sometimes change behavior, but a scalable, smartphone-ready portal that standardizes and shares these results is a novel effort.
Where this research is happening
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Oregon State University
Corvallis, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Rohlman, Diana — Oregon State University
- Study coordinator: Rohlman, Diana
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.