Creating conversations between the Atlanta community and HERCULES
Increasing the capacity of local communities to address their environmental health concerns
Guiding and supporting HERCULES scientists in community engagement
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.
To achieve these aims, we use the following approaches:
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 create and provide summaries of HERCULES research relevant to the local community.
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.
We support HERUCLES scientists who are interested in integrating community-engaged approaches into their research, facilitate community-scientists partnerships when appropriate, and prepare future scientists for community-engaged research.
Residents of the Peoplestown and Pittsburgh neighborhoods in Atlanta came together with Emory HERCULES in September 2017 to share their health concerns, learn about the exposome, and identify a...
The Proctor Creek Collaborative Health Survey was funded in spring of 2014 as the first community-based pilot study for the HERCULES Center. The pilot project was a product of a strong collaboration...
In collaboration with The Conservation Fund, HERCULES’ partners have been working with the Proctor Creek communities. Partners include West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, Community Improvement...
In addition to offering a couple students the opportunity to participate in pilot project research, the HERCULES Center also connected students with some of our investigators to assist in working on...
