Using Photovoice to Tell a Story
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from the Stakeholder Advisory Board and HERCULES scientists , created the following infographic as a summary of research led by Stakeholder...
Using Citizen Science to Identify and Map Environmental Hazard Concerns
The HERCULES Community Engagement Core, with guidance from the Stakeholder Advisory Board and HERCULES scientists , created the following infographic as a summary of research led by Stakeholder...
April 13, 2022
HERCULES Publication: Defining the Exposome Using Popular Education and Concept Mapping With Communities in Atlanta, Georgia
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...
April 13, 2022
Eri Saikawa and Rosario Hernandez featured on NIEHS Podcast
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...
November 11, 2021
“Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposure, maternal metabolomic perturbation, and fetal growth in African American women: A meet-in-the-middle approach”
HERCULES Investigators Drs. Dana Barr, Barry Ryan, Parinya Panuwet, Carmen Marsit, and Donghai Liang recently published a paper in Environmental International on using high-resolution metabolomics...
October 27, 2021
Michele Marcus, Ph.D. – Lived Experiences Document and Validate a Community’s Struggle
Michele Marcus was recently featured as the NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Grantee Highlight for her work on the NIEHS-funded Michigan PBB study. This study has followed multiple...
October 11, 2021
“High-resolution metabolomics of exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes in the Atlanta African American maternal-child cohort”
HERCULES investigators Drs. Dana Barr, Barry Ryan, Audrey Gaskins, Jeremy Sarnat, Carmen Marsit, and Donghai Liang recently published a paper in Environmental Pollution on high-resolution...
September 24, 2021
Implementation of a community grant program to address community-driven environmental health concerns
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...
September 21, 2021
“‘Contact tracing’ system for environmental chemical exposures”
HERCULES researchers have developed a system for generating “xenobiotic metabolites” – the breakdown products – from environmental chemicals, so that they can be analyzed on a large scale....