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PAB develops interactive tools; both for public and for internal use. The tools help grantees and staff gather data that can be used in in measuring the impact of the grantees’ research to show the value of our Extramural investments.

Public

  • Transitional Research Website: A website to help the grantee community use the Translational Research when sharing their impacts and showing how translational their work is.

Internal

  • Automated Research Impact Assessment (ARIA) (3MB): A tool that was created to search references cited in “important” research artifacts, such as policies, regulations, clinical guidelines, and expert panel reports. By searching these artifacts; we are able to quantify the impact of our funded research on the scientific and broader communities.
  • CareerTrac: The NIEHS CareerTrac application tracks trainee outcomes from both institutional and individual training grants. CareerTrac provides a robust data set that will be used to evaluate and improve training programs. Currently available only to DERT staff, CareerTrac will soon allow Institutional Training Grant PIs to add tracking information about trainees, generate reports needed for their progress reports and summarize data in ways that are useful to both NIEHS program staff and the institutions themselves.
  • High Impacts Tracking System (HITS): A dynamic, searchable system that manages the knowledge produced by NIEHS funded research projects. The High Impacts Tracking System (HITS) allows NIEHS staff to proactively record grantee research outcomes. The application automatically extracts the text of progress reports and program officer notes from IMPAC II, which enables users to search for important findings and impacts. The system also allows staff to annotate grants qualitatively with specific scientific impacts or key identifiers that can be tracked over time. A list of structured HITS tags (458KB) is available.