Targeting blood lead level screening
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...
April 10, 2024
HERCULES Pilot Highlight-Rollins Public Health Magazine
The Burden of Brunswick Haunted by decades of industrial pollution, a coastal community in Georgia has partnered with Rollins researchers in hopes of shedding light on the toxic substances hidden in...
February 12, 2024
HERCULES Pilot reports exposure results back to Brunswick residents
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...
August 2, 2023
NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month: Donghai Liang Understanding PFAS
Congratulations to HERCULES Researcher and Emory Rollins School of Public Health Assistant Professor, Donghai Liang, and Environmental Health Sciences Doctoral Student, Kaitlin Taibl, whose recent...
July 10, 2023
HERCULES collaborative publication: Developing and Implementing In-Person and Virtual SoilSHOPs in Atlanta, Georgia, as a Community-Engaged Approach to Screen and Prevent Soil Lead Exposure
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...
July 10, 2023
HERCULES publication: A Collaborative Approach to Address Racism in a Community–Academic Partnership
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...
May 1, 2023
How Can NASA Help Environmental Justice Efforts in Metro Atlanta?
This is the question that Yun Hang, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, is trying to answer. Hang was awarded a grant by NASA’s Applied Sciences program...
April 21, 2023
What We Flush Down the Toilet Can Tell Us a Great Deal
We call it “wastewater,” but we don’t want to waste it. Wastewater contains clues about the resurgence of diseases once thought to be eradicated, the evolution of new diseases, such as...
March 2, 2023
HERCULES collaborative publication: “They Kept Going for Answers”: Knowledge, Capacity, and Environmental Health Literacy in Michigan’s PBB Contamination
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core partnered with the PBB Research Team and community partners, researchers at the University of Michigan’s P30 Center, and an oral historian at Central...