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 is hosting an event as part of the Atlanta Science Festival with our community partners the SouthSide Environmental Justice...
NASA’s satellites capture critical environmental data—tracking air pollution, land surface temperatures, and greenspace changes over time. But how can this data support environmental justice...
Everything we eat, breathe, and experience affects our health over time. This is called the exposome—the sum of all our environmental exposures. At HERCULES Exposome Research Center, we study how...
This community group is participating in the HERCULES Roadshow and Community Grant Program. Phase 1: Exposome Roadshow Workshop The Historic Hunter Hills neighborhood is west of downtown Atlanta,...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from HERCULES scientists , created the following infographic summarizing the results from a study done with HERCULES member Eri Saikawa, PhD in...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from HERCULES scientists , created the following infographic summarizing the results from a study done with HERCULES member Lauren McCullough,...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from HERCULES scientists , created the following infographic summarizing the results from a study done with HERCULES member Eri Saikawa and the...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from HERCULES scientists , created the following infographic summarizing the results from a study done with HERCULES member Eri Saikawa and the...
WABE reporter Melissa Mecke interviewed our Roadshow Community Grantee the SEJA about their work to address their concerns with industrial pollution in South Fulton. Read and listen to the story...