Welcome to the third annual MCG-GS Savannah Community Engaged Research Conference. Today brings together students, faculty, clinicians, and community partners from Georgia Southern University and the Medical College of Georgia around a central guiding question: How can research improve health in Coastal Georgia? This year’s theme, Bridging Science, Care, and Community in the AI Era, runs through the program, from talks on trust in AI-enabled care to field projects with fishing communities, farm families, firefighters, and nursing home staff.

The One Health Book Club brings together people with diverse backgrounds to explore the connections among human, animal, and environmental health through story-driven books. In recognition of One Health Day, our November 3 and 4 virtual discussions will focus on The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby. Through the history of yellow fever, our book club members consider how mosquitoes, environmental conditions, scientific discovery, public trust, and community responses shaped an epidemic and its consequences.

CIEDM personnel have engaged a cleanup and gardening works at the Arcadia Ecohome Microforest, Arcadia, California, to improve the ecoservices of the pocket forest of 500+ trees, so as to create a more healthy trees and healthy forest as a whole. The increased capacity of the forest's ecoservices to fillter air, reduce heat and carbon emissions are benefical For All, ourselves, our neighbors, plants and animals.