Get the Support You Need, When You Need It
How can the Research Navigator help you?
OCTRI Research Navigators can help investigators and research staff find the right people, resources, and services at OHSU.
Navigators can help with questions about OCTRI services, study planning and implementation, study logisitcs, required forms, research populations, study visits, supplies, and where to go for help getting a study started.
Request OCTRI services
Call or email the OCTRI Research Navigators or fill out the Resource Request Form.
Watch this brief video to learn how a Research Navigator can connect you with OCTRI's research support services.
Contact an OCTRI Navigator to connect with research resources
OCTRI research support programs and services
Do you want to suggest an improvement to research at OHSU?
OHSU research teams experiencing barriers or with concerns about research operations can email OCTRI to suggest them.
To see a list of barriers that have already been submitted please view the current list here.
From the spark of an idea to publishing your findings. Wherever you are in your translational research, we’re here to provide the information, guidance, and resources you need to keep your project moving.
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Study design services
Click image to watch video about the Clinical Research Design Team Clinical Research Development Team:
Meet with experienced investigators to identify best practices and overcome barriers for your research project.Trial Innovation Network:
Resources and infrastructure for multi-site research.Clinical and Translational Research Center:
Hands-on help from nursing, bionutrition, lab assay, and study coordinator teams.OCTRI Design Studio:
Face-to-face, expert feedback on upcoming proposals.OCTRI Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD):
Statistical consultation on study design and data analysis. -
Qualitative research and program evaluation tools and services
Health Experiences Research Network:
Access a database of qualitative patient-centered interviews to facilitate a more comprehensive, rich, and representative understanding of patient health experiences. See Featured Program below.OCTRI Evaluation Assistance Program:
Measure the impact of your interventions with: 1) Focus groups and interviews with community members in Oregon, 2) Evaluation consultation and evaluation plan support, and 3) Quantitative and qualitative evaluation services. -
Regulatory support services
When your research involves human subjects, it requires approval from the Institutional Review Board. You may also need regulatory approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. OCTRI’s Regulatory Knowledge and Support (RKS) consulation team can provide guidance on:
- Determining which requirements apply to your study
- How to navigate the appropriate approvals and reporting requirements.
- Data safety monitoring
- Investigational new drug and investigational device exemption process resources
Review our regulatory guidance web content to connect with the RKS team for help.
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Services and tools for identifying your study population
OCTRI Recruitment Specialist:
Comprehensive recruitment consultation to identify the best resources for your study, including OCTRI resources and guidance documents.TriNetX:
Sophisticated cohort-building and discovery tool for identifying patient cohort counts that leverages OHSU patient data, as well as data from over 235 TriNetX member organizations, total over 145 million patients.OCTRI Community Research Hub:
Support connecting researchers and community organizations to facilitate, grow, and strengthen community-engaged research, including recruitment. -
Data management and analysis tools and services
REDCap:
Build and manage online survey responses and databases.Clinical research informatics services:
Support for streamling data collection from electronic medical records, building customized databases, and data pre-processing.OHSU Biostatistics and Design Program:
Statistical consultation on study design, data analysis, and related data management needs. Support analyzing your data and interpreting the results.Evaluation Assistance Program:
Support for qualitative data analysis.OHSU Research Data Concierge:
Help investigators access and work with research data at OHSU, includes extensive research data resources, with more to be added over time from across the institution.
Featured Program
Amplifying patient voices with the Health Experiences Research Network
The Health Experiences Research Network (HERN) is part of an international effort to better understand people’s experiences of health, healthcare, and illness. HERN’s web-based modules and data repositories provide resources for patients and caregivers, health professionals and students, policymakers, and researchers.
HERN researchers have completed nearly 500 interviews across 17 health conditions. The national HERN website includes summaries of key findings, interview audio and video clips, and short narrative films. Raw data are also available for secondary analysis. HERN modules can help researchers:
- Strengthen community engagement by broadening access to patient experiences
- Understand the experiences of harder-to-reach groups, including rural populations
- Identify patient priorities, research gaps, and new areas of inquiry
- Identify concepts relevant and important to patients and generate items to measure those concepts
- Understand clinical trial participant experiences and improve recruitment and retention
To access HERN data or learn more about using it in your research, email healthexperiences@ohsu.edu.