End of Internship: My experience with Target Malaria

Looking back on my time with the Communications team, I’m incredibly grateful for how much I’ve learned and the opportunity to contribute to telling the story of a project as ambitious as Target Malaria.

Over the last 3 months, I’ve had the chance to work across different corners of communications, and I’m leaving with a much broader toolkit than I arrived with. From my first week and onward, the team welcomed me in and trusted me with real-world work, and I’m genuinely grateful for their patience, feedback and encouragement along the way.

A big part of my role was creating visual content, video editing, writing blog posts and social media copy, particularly for Target Malaria’s World Mosquito Day 2026 campaign. My main project, and the achievement I’m most proud of, is the two brand-new video series, Voices from the Lab and Voices from the Team. Building these series from the ground up, from planning interview questions to editing the final submissions, taught me a huge amount about patience, attention to detail, and how to let someone else’s voice come through clearly on screen.

Beyond the practical skills, this internship gave me a much richer understanding of how communications actually works, day to day. I learned how to move between very different formats: a quick social post one day, a longer-form blog the next, and how each one demands its own tone, pace and level of detail, like how colours and elements work harmoniously on a page and what words and phrases are most appropriate to use. It can get very busy at times but navigating those different avenues and learning when to use which one has probably been the biggest lesson of my time here.

I’m also leaving with a far greater appreciation for the science and the people behind Target Malaria. Working closely with members of this project has given me a level of access and insight into their work that I don’t think I could have gained any other way.

I’m proud of the work I’ve contributed to, especially getting to see Voices from the Lab and Voices from the Team come to life, and I’ll be following both series and Target Malaria’s wider journey with real interest. I wish the project continued success for the future.