Report-Back Resources

The practice of reporting back individual research results to participants in environmental health studies has expanded over the past 20 years. Ongoing research is informing development of tools, best practices, and guidelines to support appropriate report-back in environmental health studies.  This list of resources provides a starting point to learn more about this emerging work.

• Returning Individual Research Results to Participants: Guidance for a New Research Paradigm, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Consensus Study Report (2018)
• Return of Individual Research Results, The Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard (2022) 
• Report-Back of Personal Environmental Exposures: A Bibliography, Silent Spring Institute (2023) 
• Korfmacher, K. S., & Brody, J. G. (2023). Moving Forward with Reporting Back Individual Environmental Health Research Results. Environmental Health Perspectives, 131(12), 125002. 
• Oregon State University’s Translating Research to Action and Knowledge (TRAK), (2026)