Michelle Novak

UNAIDS

Public health training to increase knowledge on HIV, the global AIDS epidemic, and HIV prevention.

Overview

Images of mobile screens from the UNAIDS courses including cover and questions screens
Screens from HIV in the Humanitarian Landscape course.

Project Description and Context


UNAIDS is leading the global effort to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Education and training is one of their lead initiatives. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) leads and inspires the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. Starting in 2021, UNAIDS partnered with Improvement Sciences, a learning design and educational technology company based in the US to create a series of courses delivered in mobile, micro-learning format on the EdApp training platform


My Role

Learning Experience Design (LXD) Lead for Improvement Sciences, E-learning course Developer, and Project Manager working with a global distributed team of other designers, UNAIDS staff, SME’s and LMS partners.

Learning Experience Design process


I was brought in with Improvement Sciences to the UNAIDS project in August of 2021 to design and develop the foundational course in the series, HIV in Humanitarian Settings: Sustaining Treatment for All.

Working with the UNAIDS education team, I later adapted and developed source content into e-learning training modules on many topics including The Basics of HIV and AIDS, Growth Mindset, Design Thinking, Words Matter- HIV and AIDS Terminology and many others over the course of the next two years.

We converted much of the content from in-person trainings and power point decks and long form knowledge base documents to mobile microlearning.

Image from UNAIDS course lesson showing an African mother in red standing outside a wood building holding her young 1 year old child up in the air and wearing a heart hoodie and smiling into her eyes

Global impact


We designed the courses to allow them to be translated into multiple languages to reach audiences around the globe.

Screen from lesson showing text and three African women with colorful head scarves. Middle center woman is smiling.
Screen of lesson showing the red cover of the book of terminology produced by UNAIDS
Screen shot of UNAIDS lesson in spanish on Prevention and guide to terms with a group of participants talking in a circle outside
Screen showing a self evaluation question in Spanish with a scale of 1-5 asking about the participants understanding of HIV and AIDS before taking the course
Course screen showing a woman alone hiding her face in her arms and hair in distress and text talking about trauma and exploitation
Screen from Humanitarian intervention course in french showing bottles of emergency water in the foreground and helicopter landed with military personnel in the foreground.
Screens from UNAIDS courses in multiple languages

Course Launch


In 2023, UNAIDS released a number of courses to the public through the Educate All initiative. You can see the live UNAIDS courses on the EdApp Educate All library.
Check out Words Matter-HIV and AIDS Terminology.

200+

Lessons

2

Years

6+

Languages

600+

Learners

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