Padula/Boronow: Tell It Like It Is! How to Share Individual Chemical Results With Your ECHO Participants Using DERBI (Digital Exposure Report Back Interface)

ECHO Discovery Summary

On March 9, Amy Padula, PhD of the University of California San Francisco, and Katie Boronow, MS of the Silent Spring Institute presented on the Digital Exposure Report Back Interface (DERBI) – a tool designed by the Silent Spring Institute to help researchers generate personalized exposure reports. The DERBI is designed to share chemical exposure results with participants and help them interpret their results and understand what actions they can take to mitigate exposures at both the personal and community levels.

Participants in exposure studies are often interested in their results, what their results mean, and what actions they can take regarding exposures. This information empowers them to make informed choices about their lifestyle, behaviors, and overall health. From the researcher standpoint, reporting results can greatly improve the science, support recruitment and retention, and advance translational discoveries.

Speakers:

Amy Padula, PhD

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Speaker Bio: Amy Padula is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She is an epidemiologist with expertise is in environmental exposures, social factors and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Amy is an ECHO cohort co-investigator and PI of an Opportunities and Infrastructures Fund (OIF) Award to use the Digital Exposure Report-Back Interface (DERBI) in two ECHO cohorts (UCSF and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

Katie Boronow, MS

Silent Spring Institute
Massachusetts

Speaker Bio: Katie Boronow is a Staff Scientist at Silent Spring Institute. Katie leads development of the Digital Exposure Report-Back Interface (DERBI), a software platform for making personal results reports for participants in exposure biomonitoring studies. Her research interests include what people know about endocrine-disrupting and cancer-causing chemicals and how personal exposure reports can build environmental health literacy about these chemicals. Katie has adapted DERBI for two ECHO cohorts and is testing new features to support environmental health literacy in these studies.

Date: Wednesday, March 9th, 1 to 2pm ET