Healthy Savannah’s Encourage Health Education Series is going live! The popular program, co-sponsored by Enmarket, will launch its 2020 season on Thursday, October 1 with live-streamed online conversations featuring leading voices in the area of health, fitness, and well-being.

Speaker nominations are currently being accepted through August 21.

“Over the past six years, program topics have covered a wide range of subject matter discussed by respected experts in the health field,” said Matt Clements, Enmarket’s Vice President of Marketing. “Now, with the impacts of the COVID pandemic affecting everyone in some way, it’s more important than ever to focus on ways to improve health and wellness, mental well-being, and stress reduction.”

This marks the seventh year for the Encourage Health series, conducted in partnership with Enmarket, Healthy Savannah, Savannah Morning News, City of Savannah, and the REACHTeam of Savannah’s Project HOPE.

By going digital this year, the series is striving to safely engage with people wherever they are. Anyone with expertise in presenting a health-oriented topic focusing on nutrition, physical activity, or well-being should submit the concept to healthysavannah.org/presenter-application. The deadline for submissions Friday, August 21, 2020, by 5:00 pm.

Applications should include the presenter’s name, organization, job title, and contact information, along with the proposed topic, title, a summary paragraph of the proposed presentation, and supporting statistics. Applicants will also be asked for a brief biography and headshot. Each submission will be reviewed by the Encourage Health advisory board.

Because the events are non-commercial and center on offering health education to the Savannah community, speakers are asked to volunteer their time and not promote any specific product or service in their presentation.

Selected speakers for the quarterly series will be announced in early September.

The 2020 series will kick off on Thursday, October 1 at 1:00 p.m. The program will be live-streamed quarterly on Healthy Savannah’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/healthysav/, rebroadcast by Savannah’s Government Channel 8, and made available as a podcast by the Savannah Morning News.

Subsequent programs will be presented in 2021 at 1:00 p.m. on January 7, April 1, and July 1. There is no cost to participate. For additional programming details, visit healthysavannah.org.

For more information, contact Paula Kreissler at [email protected].