The 2024 workshop has ended. Please email herculesexposome@emory.edu to receive information about future workshop offerings!

Session 1 Topics:
  • Overview of using data to address community concerns
  • Using data to support associations between source/exposure/outcome
  • How to determine a data question
  • Types of data needed for different questions
  • Types of available data
Session 2 Topics:
  • Data collection methods and tools
  • Data validity and quality standards
  • Bias
Session 2.5 Topics:
  • Publicly available data use
  • Census data
  • Participants’ requests
Session 3 Topics:
  • EH related agencies (who they are, what they do)
  • Laws related to specific concerns
  • Rights as community scientists
  • Opportunities to be involved in legal process (especially with data)
  • Data requests
Session 4 Topics:
  • Basic data visualization and summaries (descriptive stats); Data communications
  • Basic Excel or Sheets tutorial (making tables/graphs)
  • Tools to assist with interpreting data (including AI)
Session 5 Topics:
  • How to summarize or report data back to relevant party
  • Create a plan for further investigation/action

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the connections between exposure, outcome, and structural inequity and locate evidence to support or reject specific associations
  • Formulate, investigate, and communicate a data question related to an environmental health concern using online resources and basic statistical methods
    • Produce a detailed and achievable data plan to address their environmental health concern
    • Describe the different types of data required to answer different kinds of research questions
  • Locate at least three online tools or resources for information collection
  • Identify and locate a publicly available dataset
  • Recognize the importance of data validity for different goals and discuss requirements for community-specific goals (standards of evidence)
  • Identify challenges around data collection (ex: low cost sensor validity to EPA), analysis, and validity as they relate to community-specific EH concerns
  • Learning Objectives to be defined after first session and based upon participant needs
  • Identify the laws/regulations and agencies that are relevant to their specific EH concern
  • Locate forms or resources for requesting data or contacting government officials
  • Recognize the importance of data validity for different goals and discuss requirements for community-specific goals (standards of evidence)
  • Identify opportunities to use data to support advocacy efforts
  • Identify challenges around data collection, analysis, and validity as they relate to community-specific EH concerns
  • Perform basic data analysis using online tools or statistical methods
  • Produce a plan, presentation or report of compiled data for targeted audience
  • Identify challenges around data collection, analysis, and validity as they relate to community-specific EH concerns
  • Perform basic data analysis using online tools or statistical methods
  • Produce a presentation or report of compiled data for targeted audience