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.

Bats, Bugs & Borders: Emerging Zoonoses in a Warming World is a One Health symposium hosted by the SAVMA Public Health Committee at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California, on One Health Day, November 3, 2026. This in-person evening of expert talks and a speaker panel brings together veterinary, medical and health sciences students and faculty to explore how climate change is reshaping the diseases shared by people, animals and the environment.