# Community Outreach and Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · EMORY UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $179,554

## Abstract

ABSTRACT: Community Outreach and Engagement Core 
With its scientific theme of the exposome, HERCULES has been a unifying force for residents, community- 
based organizations, government agencies and academic partners in Atlanta. We propose to build on the 
momentum of our first three years to: 1) maintain and expand multi-directional dialogue around environmental 
health issues within the Atlanta community, 2) enhance community capacity to address local environmental 
health concerns and to partner in community-engaged research projects, and 3) guide and support 
HERCULES Scientists in community engagement and outreach. We have formed a large and actively engaged 
Stakeholder Advisory Board that not only serves as a platform for multi-directional communication about 
environmental health issues and research, but also makes decisions about how the Community Outreach and 
Engagement Core (COEC) should advance its agenda. Specifically, we plan to conduct “Exposome 
Roadshows” to further disseminate the exposome concept and employ concept mapping to ensure that 
community perspectives are integrated into exposome frameworks as they evolve. Our Community Grants 
program will address community-identified environmental health concerns that incorporate an exposome 
perspective, as well as strengthen community capacity to address environmental health concerns. 
Additionally, we will develop a Community-Based Participatory Research course for doctoral students in the 
Environmental Health Sciences Program to prepare future scientists for community-engaged research and we 
will consult with faculty who receive a CBPR pilot grant from HERCULES and/or who are interested in 
integrating community-engaged approaches into their environmental health research. The COEC will provide 
the needed mechanisms to ensure that community voices inform the HERCULES scientists of local 
environmental health concerns, with a particular emphasis on neighborhoods disproportionately affected by 
environmental exposures. In turn, exposome concepts and research findings will be discussed with local 
communities, public health professionals and policy-makers in a format that is both relevant and accessible. 
Through a robust evaluation, we will engage in continuous quality improvement of COEC approaches, as well 
as contribute to the science of community engagement in environmental health.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10144463
- **Project number:** 5P30ES019776-09
- **Recipient organization:** EMORY UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Melanie Alice PEARSON
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $179,554
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2013-05-21 → 2022-07-19

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10144463

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10144463, Community Outreach and Engagement Core (5P30ES019776-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10144463. Licensed CC0.

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