By developing partnerships and building capacity among community members and scientists, the CEC aims to incorporate community concerns into the long-term research efforts of HERCULES investigators.
Our work relies on strong partnerships, especially with our Stakeholder Advisory Board. Our Board, which includes local residents, non-profits, and government agencies, guides CEC activities and ensures community concerns about environmental health issues are incorporated into HERCULES. We also support community-engaged research partnerships through the HERUCLES Pilot Program and by recognizing partners for their community engaged work.
Learn about our SAB and partnership work
We create and provide environmental health resources relevant to the local community, including infographics and summaries of environmental health research
We conduct workshops with local communities to share the exposome concept, identify communities’ exposome-related perspectives and concerns and include those perspectives in future exposome science. We then provide grants for communities to address those concerns.
Current and past grant programs
We support HERUCLES scientists who are interested in integrating community-engaged approaches into their research, facilitate community-scientist partnerships when appropriate, and prepare future scientists for community-engaged research.
Community Engagement Core Services
Read our Community Engagement Core publications here.
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core played a role in bringing partners together to identify and address lead soil contamination in West Atlanta. These partners collaborated on a recent publication...
Since 2020, the HERCULES Community Engagement Core and its Stakeholder Advisory Board have participated in a collaborative process to address racism within HERCULES and their partnership. They...
NPU-P completed their 3-year participation in the Clarence Shaheed Dubois Exposome Roadshow and Community Grant Program on March 31, 2023! Congratulations! Residents of Neighborhood Planning Unit P...
Residents seeking to address their environmental health concerns came together virtually with Emory HERCULES in November and December 2022 to share their environmental health concerns, learn about...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from community partners and HERCULES scientists , created the following infographic summarizing the results from a HERCULES Pilot Project about...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from the Stakeholder Advisory Board and HERCULES scientists , created the following infographic as a summary of research led by Stakeholder...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from the Stakeholder Advisory Board and HERCULES scientists , created the following infographic as a summary of research led by Stakeholder...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from the Stakeholder Advisory Board and HERCULES scientists, created the following infographic series about everyday chemicals found in our...
The exposome concept provides a framework to better incorporate the environment into the study of health and disease and has been defined by academics to encompass all lifetime exposures including...