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Podcast Production and Marketing

Globally, podcasts have become extremely popular with listeners reaching close to 500 million. When podcasts were first envisioned back in 2004, it was hoped to be a medium that could disrupt the traditional top-down ways by which information and knowledge were created and shared. Podcasts allow many different voices the opportunity to be heard, by people from all corners of the globe.


In health and social fields, podcasts are an engaging way to share information, perspectives, and the latest developments with the public and professionals alike. Podcasts have also been used as an effective educational tool to build learners’ practical skills. In domains where discussion and discourse are siloed, podcasts can be a space for new voices to emerge and could bring unique perspectives on topics.

If you are considering launching your podcast, our team can assist you with:

  • Identifying guests
  • Developing the series and episode structure
  • Preparing questions
  • Writing scripts
  • Audio editing
  • Social media marketing to promote the podcast
  • Training workshops on how to create a podcast

Learn more about some of our podcast projects:

Global health matters
Collaborative Innovation, Conversations with Pioneers

Read more about our podcast projects:

  • Podcasts as a tool to disrupt knowledge hierarchies and silos to decolonise global health, Coming soon!

Training and Instructional Design

Adult training and learning no longer suffices with didactic methods delivered only in a dusty classroom. With the explosion of creative communication mediums, a range of new possibilities have opened up to deliver training that can enable self-directed, social, and experiential learning. Videos, social media, and creative mobile phone-compatible instructional materials can all be leveraged to deliver training in a way that will share new knowledge, enhance memory retention, and promote behavior change among learners.

 

Learning packages for low-and middle-income country settings require thoughtful consideration of the contextual factors and an investment to make these materials culturally representative. With the vast uptake of mobile phones and platforms, like WhatsApp, it has become possible to deliver training materials more accessibly and inclusively.

If you would like to design training materials, our team can support you with:

  • Defining learning outcomes & a theory of change
  • Identifying key learning messages
  • Writing character-based video scripts
  • Designing and producing (shareable via WhatsApp), with translation into different languages
  • Designing and producing print materials such as posters or instructional guides
  • Designing facilitator’s guides

Learn more about some of our training and instructional design projects:

IPC-WASH Learning Package
Hospital Solution Hubs
Social Innovation Public Health Curriculum
SIHI Latin America

Read more about our training and instructional design projects:

Innovation Capacity Building

The past 50 years saw scientists achieve the most remarkable advances that have delivered many new technologies. Unfortunately, these technologies have not been able to address the complex challenges experienced by people and systems. The innovation now required more than ever, is innovation at the intersections of people and the planet, communities and organizations, and relationships and power.

 

This kind of innovation depends on the participation of everyone. No longer can it be the responsibility of experts. Whether frontline workers or community members, democratized innovation recognizes the potential of all to contribute. Sharing the skills, processes and tools of innovation can encourage agency within people working in established systems to participate in finding culturally and context-specific solutions to local challenges.

If you would like to create a solution of your own or enhance the innovation capacity of people in your organization, our team can assist with:

  • Developing an innovation strategy or roadmap
  • Designing a tailored innovation program for your organization
  • Training workshops and interactive training materials
  • Qualitative research to scope an innovation or assess an existing innovation

Learn more about our innovation capacity building projects

Hospital solution hubs
SIHI Latin America
social innovation in health initiative (sihi)

Read more about our innovation capacity building projects

Healthcare Marketing

We all are used to seeing stunningly designed marketing adverts for Nike shoes and iPhones. However, when it comes to health, we place great emphasis on sharing technically correct messages but neglect to give due consideration to the visual appeal of work. Let’s put the time-tested principles of marketing to use for health worker education, health promotion, and the uptake of research into policy.

 

Marketing boasts many different tools and strategies that can be leveraged to support you in achieving your project’s goal. A short film can concisely share the main findings of your research study in a people-centered way;  a beautifully designed print booklet can highlight your project’s achievements in an enticing way to funders; and an engaging social media campaign can reach new audiences and include the public in solution-creation. Investing in creating a marketing product for your work will tell a compelling story capable of resonating with the values and aspiration of your audience.

If require a branding or communication materials, our team can assist you with:

  • Brand development
  • Print (flyers, posters, booklets)
  • Digital (websites, social media marketing)
  • Micro-documentaries films
  • Animation or motion graphic films
  • Crowdsourcing campaigns

Learn more about our health marketing projects:

SIHI Latin America
Gender-based strategy for infectious disease
Chipatala Cha Pa Foni
Ebola leader's voices

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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.