A global health community passionate about communication

Communication4Impact (C4I) is the initiative of a group of friends and colleagues who have collaborated on multiple unique global health projects over a decade. None of us are communication experts but we have explored different forms of communication in our work.


Through our own learning and experiences, we have seen firsthand the valuable role communication methodologies play in amplifying our global health work and how these serve as an enjoyable creative outlet. Now we wish to share our learning with other global health professionals.


We hope that collectively, we can catalyze and inspire a broader community of like-minded individuals and organizations influencing global health through effective communication.

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Our proposition

Communication4Impact (C4I) intends to fill the gap for easily available information, resources, and experiences in global health communication. Through this platform, we hope to:

 

  • Bring global health professionals interested in communication together, online and in person.
  • Raise awareness around the need for and value of global health communication.
  • Capacitate ourselves as global health professionals, by sharing communication approaches, forms, and tools that we have found to benefit our work.
  • Share practical project case studies (ideally, not only ours but yours too!)
Learn more about communication in global health

Our invitation

If you are a global health implementer, researcher, practitioner, or student, we would like to invite you to join Communication4Impact. There are several ways to be involved:

 

  • Subscribe, and you will be sure to receive regular articles on various communication topics.
  • Participate in the comments section of each article and let us know what you think!
  • Write an article to share your learning. We would love to post your articles. Please send them to Lindi at lindi@chembecollaborative.org.
  • Share your communication experience/project in audio or video format. To make it easy for you, we will interview you and post a well-edited audio or video recording on C4I
  • Contribute – C4I is curated by Chembe Collaborate free of charge at the moment but if you have any resources or financial support available to contribute to growing this network, it would be greatly appreciated!

In-person events:

We regularly host in-person events to gather like-minded global health professionals passionate about communication.

Global Health Communication: Skills to change evidence into influence

Health Systems Research Symposium

Bogota, Colombia (2022)

Global Health Communication: Skills to Disrupt Knowledge Hierarchies and Siloes

Consortium for Universities in Global Health

Los Angeles, USA (2024)

In November 2022, we hosted our first 3-hour skills-building session.

The session was attended by over 40 global health researchers and practitioners working across 19 countries, representing leading schools of public health, non-profit health agencies, bilateral health agencies, donors, and Ministries of Health.

It was unanimously agreed during this session that global health communication deserves more attention, capacity building, and support.

Are you attending #CUGH2024 in Los Angeles? Come join us for an exciting session on Global Health Communication with diverse and inspiring guests! This session will be packed with valuable hands-on skills and is free and open to the public!

 

Register here: https://www.cugh2024.org/satellite-session-5

In-person events:

We regularly host in-person events to gather like-minded global health professionals passionate about communication.

Global Health Communication: Skills to change evidence into influence

Health Systems Research Symposium

Bogota, Colombia (2022)

In November 2022, we hosted our first 3-hour skills-building session.

The session was attended by over 40 global health researchers and practitioners working across 19 countries, representing leading schools of public health, non-profit health agencies, bilateral health agencies, donors, and Ministries of Health.

It was unanimously agreed during this session that global health communication deserves more attention, capacity building, and support.

Global Health Communication: Skills to Disrupt Knowledge Hierarchies and Siloes

Consortium for Universities in Global Health

Los Angeles, USA (2024)

Are you attending #CUGH2024 in Los Angeles? Come join us for an exciting session on Global Health Communication with diverse and inspiring guests! This session will be packed with valuable hands-on skills and is free and open to the public!

 

Register here: https://www.cugh2024.org/satellite-session-5

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Dr Lindi van Niekerk is a South African medical doctor with expertise in primary care, health systems, and social innovation. In her global health work, Lindi draws on her technical knowledge as a clinician, her qualitative research experience gained in several low-and middle-income countries, her strategic project implementation capacity, and her creative ability as a filmmaker and storyteller.

 

Since 2008, Lindi has been on a journey to catalyze acceptance and create opportunities for social innovation within health systems. While working as a medical doctor, she established the first public hospital-based end of life care project, and as Inclusive Health Innovation Lead at the University of Cape Town’s Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, she established the first innovation lab in the main public tertiary hospital in Cape Town (Groote Schuur Hospital). Lindi co-founded the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI) in partnership with the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), hosted at the World Health Organization. As part of this initiative, she led a multi-partner research study on social innovation models across 17 countries and provided strategic guidance to the establishment of four social innovation research hubs at universities in Malawi, Uganda, the Philippines, and Colombia. In her own doctoral research, she has focused on gaining a deeper understanding of the factors involved in institutionalizing social innovations as part of the health system in Malawi.

 

Since establishing Chembe Collaborative in 2016, she has worked as an independent consultant with clients ranging from universities, multilateral agencies, private companies, and non-governmental organizations. Lindi has a deep sensitivity to the cultural realities of low-and middle-income countries and the health system challenges faced by both people seeking care and providers/policymakers delivering care in these settings.

 

Lindi holds a PhD in Global Health and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an MBChB from the University of Pretoria. 

Alasdair is a commercial editor, animator and film director. While working with Chembe, he has produced motion graphics for clients such as TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi.

 

Recently, Alasdair completed his second feature film edit – a period love story set in Zanzibar in Swahili. His first feature film edit for “Saloum”, which premiered in the Midnight Madness Category of the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2021.

 

When he isn’t editing foreign language films, he loves working in the documentary field. Having filmed ice swimming world records in Siberia and Alaska, Environmental Marine conservation documentaries all over South and East Africa and edited many humanitarian and wildlife programmes across Africa and Asia. Alasdair is passionate about telling people’s stories.

 

With his love of film and culture, Alasdair was a founding member of the Cape Town leg of the International Short Film Festival in 2010 and was its festival director for 6 years before retiring the festival in 2020. The festival was designed as a network building event through its many host cities on every continent.

Claudi likes understanding and combining seemingly opposite fields, approaches and environments. For her, creativity and analytics are not opposites, but one actually enhances one another. This has driven her to pursue an education in graphic design at Central Saint Martins in London, followed by a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University in Cape Town as well as, holding her Masters in Development Economics from the University of Amsterdam.


As a child of Africa, at the heart of her identity is a passion for social change, which has led her to work on projects relating to financial inclusion, labor fairness and reducing patient waiting times in a pediatric hospital in South Africa. In contrast, Claudi has also worked in more commercial settings, from start-ups to technology consulting for big corporations.


Claudi uses her unique background to help her find commonality and patterns when things seem unconnected. She believes that stronger ideas are formed when we combine disciplines, borrow knowledge from one area and customize it to suit the problem at hand.

Dr Lindi van Niekerk is a South African medical doctor with expertise in primary care, health systems, and social innovation. In her global health work, Lindi draws on her technical knowledge as a clinician, her qualitative research experience gained in several low-and middle-income countries, her strategic project implementation capacity, and her creative ability as a filmmaker and storyteller.

 

Since 2008, Lindi has been on a journey to catalyze acceptance and create opportunities for social innovation within health systems. While working as a medical doctor, she established the first public hospital-based end of life care project, and as Inclusive Health Innovation Lead at the University of Cape Town’s Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, she established the first innovation lab in the main public tertiary hospital in Cape Town (Groote Schuur Hospital). Lindi co-founded the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI) in partnership with the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), hosted at the World Health Organization. As part of this initiative, she led a multi-partner research study on social innovation models across 17 countries and provided strategic guidance to the establishment of four social innovation research hubs at universities in Malawi, Uganda, the Philippines, and Colombia. In her own doctoral research, she has focused on gaining a deeper understanding of the factors involved in institutionalizing social innovations as part of the health system in Malawi.

Since establishing Chembe Collaborative in 2016, she has worked as an independent consultant with clients ranging from universities, multilateral agencies, private companies, and non-governmental organizations. Lindi has a deep sensitivity to the cultural realities of low-and middle-income countries and the health system challenges faced by both people seeking care and providers/policymakers delivering care in these settings.

 Lindi holds a PhD in Global Health and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an MBChB from the University of Pretoria.