HERCULES: Exposome Research Center

HERCULES：社区参与核心-摘要 HERCULES社区参与核心（CEC）在学习中心的使命中发挥着关键作用 疾病如何影响健康和社区福祉，并利用这些知识来改善人类 通过维持和丰富与社区伙伴的关系，进一步界定和应用 解决社区关切的棘手概念。CEC与亚特兰大地铁的社区合作 这是一个多样化的地区，面临着无数的环境不公正。由于这一复杂的区域问题， 亚特兰大的环境卫生（EH）社区已经围绕着大力神和麻烦的主题， 成立一个积极参与的利益相关者咨询委员会（SAB），代表受影响的各方 以及那些提供资源和监督的人，包括社区、非营利组织、大学和 其他企事业单位提供我们的SAB监督、指导和制定CEC活动和预算。一起我们 在实现我们先前的目标方面取得了巨大成功， 提高社区解决当地环境卫生问题的能力， 社区合作伙伴和EH科学家之间的社区参与研究，产生真实的影响， 包括一个超级基金补救和改变一个城市的分区条例。在这些基础上 成就，我们使用了一个迭代的过程，参与，建立信任，并从我们的SAB学习， 社区和中心成员，以发展我们目前的目标和活动。中央选举委员会将促进多方面的工作， 在亚特兰大社区内围绕环境卫生和司法问题进行定向对话和合作（目标1）， 指导和支持HERCULES成员和学生参与社区活动和合作努力， 互惠互利，文化上负责，分享权力（目标2），并提高社区能力， 解决当地的EH问题，并与合作伙伴共同努力共享电力（目标3）。我们将继续 通过让我们的SAB指导和通报我们的活动，实现多方向的对话和合作， 其中包括与HERCULES试点项目计划的合作，以指导和支持中心成员 和学生参与社区参与的试点项目，以及提出CEC领导的翻译试点 在转化研究框架内进一步推进HERCULES研究的项目。我们将 提供两个示范社区参与计划，建立多方向的对话，促进 参与和合作，并提高社区能力：1）四阶段Exposome路演和 社区补助金计划支持社区围绕优先事项组织、计划、采取和维持行动 EH问题，以及2）我们的数据科学研讨会，与埃默里大学环境法诊所和 环境健康数据科学核心和综合健康科学设施核心，地址 社区数据需求，培训居民识别、收集和使用数据以解决当地EH问题。

HERCULES: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE -- SUMMARY The HERCULES Community Engagement Core (CEC) plays a critical role in the Center mission of learning how the exposome affects health and community well-being and using that knowledge to improve human health by sustaining and enriching relationships with community partners, further defining and applying the exposome concept to address community concerns. The CEC works with communities in the Atlanta metro area, a diverse region facing myriad environmental injustices. Due to this complex regional exposome, Atlanta’s environmental health (EH) community has coalesced around HERCULES and the exposome theme, forming an active and engaged Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB) representing both those who are impacted and those who provide resources and oversight, including neighborhoods, non-profits, universities, and government agencies. Our SAB oversees, guides, and develops CEC activities and budgets. Together, we have had great success in achieving our previous goals of disseminating research findings, developing models of engagement that enhance community capacity to address local EH concerns, and strengthening capacity for community-engaged research among both community partners and EH scientists, leading to real impact, including a Superfund Remediation and changes to a city’s zoning ordinances. Building on those achievements, we used an iterative process of engaging, building trust with, and learning from our SAB, community, and Center members, to develop our current Aims and activities. The CEC will facilitate multi- directional dialogue and collaboration around EH and justice issues within the Atlanta community (Aim 1), guide and support HERCULES members and students in community engagement and collaborative efforts that are mutually beneficial, culturally responsible, & share power (Aim 2), and enhance community capacity to address local EH concerns and partner in collaborative shared-power efforts (Aim 3). We will continue to achieve multi-directional dialogue and collaboration by engaging our SAB to guide and inform our activities, which include a partnership with the HERCULES Pilot Project Program to guide and support Center members and students in community-engaged pilot projects as well as proposing CEC-led Translational Pilot Projects that further advance HERCULES research across the Translational Research Framework. We will offer two model community engagement programs that establish multi-directional dialogue, facilitate engagement and collaboration, and enhance community capacity: 1) the four-phase Exposome Roadshow and Community Grant Program supports a community to organize, plan, take, and sustain action around a priority EH issue, and 2) our Data Science Workshops, a partnership with Emory’s Environmental Law Clinic and the Environmental Health Data Sciences Core and Integrated Health Science Facility Core, addresses community data needs, training residents to identify, collect, and use data to address local EH concerns.