National Institutes of Health
Office of Dietary Supplements · Supplements, Facts First · 2026
How Resin Health won an NIH award.
ConductScience’s Resin Health was named one of eight Phase 1 winners of the NIH challenge to turn static supplement fact sheets into digital experiences for every age. Here is the challenge — and everything we did to win it.
The recognition
One of eight teams chosen nationwide.
The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements named Resin Health a Phase 1 winner of Supplements, Facts First: A Digital Adventure for Every Age. The award carries a $40,000 prize and advances the project into Phase 2, the prototype round, where up to five teams move forward.
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The challenge
Turn authoritative fact sheets into something people actually use.
The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements publishes the most comprehensive supplement fact sheets available, covering more than 100 nutrients and botanicals. The science is thorough. The problem is that it stays on a government website, disconnected from the bottles people buy and the medications they take.
The challenge asked teams to convert those static fact sheets into engaging digital experiences — apps, AI tools, social content, video — that reach diverse populations across every age. Submissions had to demonstrate the concept across at least two modalities, show demographic customization, lay out an evaluation plan, and bring at least one signed community partner.
How we won
Everything we did to become a Phase 1 winner.
Scan, Check, Decide is the product. Below is the thinking that won the award.
One tap on a bottle produces a personalized safety dashboard: each ingredient mapped to its ODS fact sheet, checked against the user’s medications, and returned as plain-language flags with concrete next steps — never abstract risk scores.
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A scan-first concept that meets people where they are
Instead of asking people to navigate a government website, we made the supplement bottle itself the trigger. Point a phone at any bottle and the relevant NIH fact sheet appears — in the kitchen, at the pharmacy counter, in the clinic. The physical object becomes the front door to the science.
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Three modalities, where the challenge asked for two
The same NIH fact-sheet content is delivered three ways from one scan: a visual safety dashboard for readers, an ODS-grounded chatbot for askers, and 60–90 second explainer videos for watchers. Each serves a different literacy level, learning style, and accessibility need — a single journey, not three separate features.
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Grounded in behavior-change science
Every design choice maps to the COM-B model of behavior change. The scan trigger is Opportunity. Demographic-adapted content builds Capability. Personalized red / amber / green flags sustain Motivation, because seeing your medications flagged against your supplements is compelling in a way a static fact sheet never is.
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Three target audiences, each with a real justification
Older adults 65+ (about 70% take supplements and 40% take five or more medications), prenatal and postpartum mothers (uniquely high-stakes dosing), and community pharmacists as a distribution amplifier. We wrote the content, defaults, and safety thresholds for each group rather than shipping one generic experience.
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Community co-design, not just recruitment
We partnered with Link Health, a 501(c)(3) embedded in safety-net clinics across Boston and Houston, and signed a letter of intent for Phase 1. Following community-based participatory research principles, their Certified Patient Navigators shaped the concept — their feedback is why the app uses plain-language action steps instead of abstract risk scores.
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Built for equity from the first line of code
Resin Health is a Progressive Web App: no app store account, no large download, works on any phone. The scan-and-dashboard experience runs fully offline, with a high-contrast mode, 16px minimum text, and 44px touch targets for older adults. Removing the installation barrier is itself the equity intervention.
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A concrete plan to prove it in Phase 2
The submission laid out a real evaluation: co-design workshops, community feedback sessions, and user testing with 15–40 participants at the Boston and Houston sites, measuring usability and pre/post supplement-safety knowledge — plus a distribution plan projecting 60,000–220,000 first-year touchpoints across clinics, pharmacies, social video, and organic discovery.
The team
Built by ConductScience.
Resin Health is a ConductScience project, developed with community partner Link Health and grounded entirely in authoritative NIH data sources. It joins a portfolio of ConductScience digital-health tools built to move research-grade science into real patient hands.
What’s next
Phase 2 is underway.
We’re building the working prototype and running user testing with community partners in Boston and Houston, through 2027. See the product, or talk to us about partnering.
