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.
WABE reporter Melissa Mecke interviewed our Roadshow Community Grantee the Southside Environmental Justice Alliance (SEJA) about their work to address their concerns with industrial pollution in...
Join us in RRR 800 for lunch and an introduction to the Greater Atlanta Community Science Collaboratory. Register to attend in-person here. Join via Zoom here. ...
A HERCULES Pilot Project has partnered with residents in Brunswick for the last two years to study whether levels of certain metals, pesticides and other man-made chemicals are higher than normal in...
HERCULES partnered with Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing’s Center for Children’s Health Assessment, Research Translation, and Combating Environmental Racism (CHARTER) to...
This MOU Guidance helps facilitate conversations for community-academic partnerships to establish a mutual understanding for expectations and goals for a...
This guide provides resources to help you consider language and visuals that you use in presentations, grant proposals, and publications to ensure inclusivity....
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...
