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, 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...
In this episode of NIEHS’s Podcast, Environmental Health Chat, HERCULES Investigator Eri Saikawa and Rosario Hernandez, Executive Director of Historic Westside Gardens, discuss their...
HERCULES’s Clarence “Shaheed” DuBois Roadshow and Community Grant Program was recently featured in the NIEHS PEPH newsletter. This program continues to evolve over the years to enhance...
Families from Atlanta learned about the chemical toxicity of products in their home at the 2021 virtual Atlanta Science Festival. Using the Environmental Working Group’s Healthy Living app,...
The Chapel Hill Organization, an Exposome Roadshow and Community Grant Program grantee in south Dekalb County, and partner organization on a HERCULES Pilot Grant, hosted a community event this past...
Our Community Engagement Core presented their work on learning the community’s definition of the exposome at the International Society for Exposure Science’s (ISES) Annual Meeting, held...
As a new Center, HERCULES sought to engage local Atlanta communities to learn about and address their self-identified environmental health concerns. To do this, the HERCULES Community Engagement Core...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from HERCULES scientists , created the following infographic summarizing the results from a research study about vaping beliefs conducted by...