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.