This section contains toolkits for summarizing research findings and developing dissemination products, such as Plain Language Summaries, Policy Briefs, Reports, Infographics, and Press Releases.
- Beyond Scientific Publication: Strategies for Disseminating Research Findings (Yale CARE)– Provides guidance on developing a dissemination plan and key strategies for dissemination; Includes a dissemination planning worksheet and examples of dissemination products.
- Dissemination of Rural Health Research: A Toolkit (Rural Health Research Gateway)—This toolkit applies more broadly to the dissemination of all clinical and translational research. It is a rich resource for various dissemination products with examples of each.
- Health Bucks Program Evaluation Toolkit (NYC/CDC Div. of Nutrition, Physical Activity & Obesity): This toolkit includes brief dissemination strategy tools, such as a dissemination checklist and a few examples of dissemination products.
- MRCT Center of BWH and Harvard Return of Aggregate Results to Participants—Includes Principles, Guidance Document, and Toolkit (see “Project Resources”). The toolkit includes hands-on tools for creating summaries for aggregate study findings, including helpful templates, checklists, and examples of plain-language summaries.
- MRCT Center of BWH and Harvard Return of Individual Results to Participants – Includes Principles, Recommendations Document, and Toolkit (see “Deliverables”). The toolkit includes hands-on tools for returning individual study results to research participants; it Includes dissemination planning figures for determining which individual findings should be returned and when, as well as planning tools and case studies.
- NASEM – Returning Individual Results to Research Participants: Full Book – Comprehensive consensus study reports that review the current evidence on the benefits, harms, and costs of returning individual research results while considering the ethical, social, operational, and regulatory aspects of the practice. The recommendations document can be found here.EditSig