My experience interning with Target Malaria
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For the past 6 months, I have worked on the Global Communications team at Target Malaria. This has been an opportunity to thoroughly explore the world of science communications and approach the task of simplifying complex scientific concepts for a range of audiences.
The wax pattern for World Mosquito Day, I created the illustration of the woman to reflect the theme of ‘Gender, Equity and Human Rights’
The banner that I created for Africa Day. It repurposes the original wax pattern while introducing new elements to highlight our teams across Africa.
I have had the opportunity to work on numerous campaigns commemorating World Malaria Day and World Mosquito Day, and even got to plan and lead a campaign of my own for Africa Day. I have approached communications from all angles, doing everything from creating illustrations and designing content for campaigns to researching awards to celebrate our hardworking researchers and stakeholder engagement teams.
Much of my work has been dedicated to the upkeep of the Target Malaria website, from performing admin tasks to writing blogs on events and scientific developments across our country teams; I broke down dense political documents and shared fun creative concepts for campaigns.
A mosquito animation created for World Mosquito Day.
I also enjoyed engaging the public at the Great Exhibition Road festival: playtesting the Microinjection video game, showcasing live mosquitoes in their different life stages (which I later created animated GIFs of) and showcasing the Mozzie Drive card game.
It has been amazing to witness this year’s major highlights in the entire Target Malaria team, from hosting the President of the National Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in Burkina Faso, to gracing the stage of the annual TED conference.
It has also been a pleasure to work with the Global Communications team and I would like to thank Morgane Danielou for being a gracious and uplifting leader, Yann-Pablo Corminboeuf for helping me flourish creatively and explore new approaches to digital art, and Lorraine Gibson for being a constant guiding presence throughout the internship. During my term we also welcomed Ndeye Mane Sall to our team, and I would like to thank her for her genuine consideration of the whole team’s input and for always being there to lend a helping hand. Finally, as the newest intern, Zainab Shire has brought such a bright energy and fresh ideas to the table and as a fellow recent graduate, I wish her the best of luck as she carves out a career path.
It has been a pleasure to be a part of this team, and I am looking forward to seeing what the future holds as I go forward.
