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.
Emory University’s HERCULES Exposome Research Center funded a community-engaged pilot project investigating urban soil contamination in Atlanta. The study has led to an EPA site investigation and...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core created an infographic series about everyday chemicals found in our exposomes. This infographic focuses on the common toxicants found in our...
East Point neighbors are concerned about the periodic chemical emissions of toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene, penta, and creosote from nearby manufacturing...
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, in collaboration with the Stakeholder Advisory Board and HERCULES scientists, created the following infographic and 1-page plain-language summary of research...
Research study conducted by Samantha Eiffert and colleagues, including HERCULES scientists Melanie Pearson and Andrea Winquist and community partner Dr. Yomi Noibi, about environmental exposures...
Research conducted by HERCULES scientists Lyndsey Darrow and Matt Strickland about air pollution and birth...
Research conducted by HERCULES scientists P. Barry Ryan and Dana Barr about the amount and type of pesticides found in the soil of Atlanta...
Research conducted by John Pearce and HERCULES scientist(s) Paige Tolbert, Stefanie Sarnat, Lance Waller, and Howard Chang about the different mixtures of air pollutants across Atlanta,...
Local NPR station WABE 90.1 airs a continuing series on Atlanta’s Proctor Creek on “Morning Edition.” HERCULES SAB members Na’Taki Osborne-Jelks and Tony Torrence can be...