Community Engagement Core

Sixteen Atlanta-area residents participated in a 4-session dialogue series from September 2024 through April 2025 to come up with strategies to address heat-related illness as experienced in the city. Through these sessions, led by the CHART Community Engagement Core, participants explored the issues related to heat exposures and came up with community-based solutions to reduce the impact of heat-related illness on metro-Atlanta residents. The two documents linked below share more…

Congratulations to CHART’s graduating students! Our center is grateful to have had an amazing team of graduate students supporting center research, community engagement, and pilot grant projects. We’re excited to keep a few of these students on our team over the summer and look forward to seeing all that they accomplish next!  Emily Wilhelm, MPH Environmental Health   CHART Research Core  “At CHART, I had the opportunity to engage with participants and support data collection through participant recruitment,…

Our Community Engagement Core created a flyer on How to Stay Safe in Extreme Heat – 202 that was featured on the Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) monthly resource newsletter! The PEPH is a network of scientists, community members, educators, healthcare providers, public health officials, and policymakers who share the goal of increasing the impact of environmental public health research at the local, regional, and national level.    

The CHART Community Engagement Core (CEC), guided by its Partner Steering Committee, has selected three outstanding projects for the 2025-2026 CHART Community Grant. On our second year of this project we received applications from dedicated groups across the Atlanta metro area, all focused on addressing climate-related challenges, particularly those related to heat.  Each year, CHART’s CEC invites Atlanta residents to propose innovative projects aimed at mitigating climate and heat impacts in…

The CHART Community Engagement Core (CEC), guided by its Partner Steering Committee, has selected three outstanding projects for the 2024-2025 CHART Community Grant. This year, we received six applications from dedicated groups across the Atlanta metro area, all focused on addressing climate-related challenges, particularly those related to heat.  Each year, CHART’s CEC invites Atlanta residents to propose innovative projects aimed at mitigating climate and heat impacts in their neighborhoods. Applicants…