About Us
Healthlink
Worldwide is the specialist health and
development agency that empowers through communication.
We work to improve the health and well being of disadvantaged communities
in developing countries.
What makes us distinctive is our ethos to go far beyond vital health information provision to enable active participation in health development. We do this by mobilising innovative knowledge and communication processes. These empower people to voice their health needs and have those voices heard.
Making Connections, Improving Health: Strategic Framework 2008 – 2013
Our work has evolved over time and today we are an organisation that champions participatory approaches to improving access to knowledge and promotes inclusive development dialogue to directly improve health and well being. We remain committed to our mission, to working in partnership and to responding to the needs of marginalised and vulnerable people around the world.
Download the Strategic Framework 2008 – 2013 (PDF 723 KB)
How we work
Healthlink Worldwide works in partnership; with over 50 partnerships
in more than 30 countries improving the health of people living with HIV
and AIDS, disabled people, children and young people and vulnerable women.
Partnership to us means real connection between people over time. That's
why we work with sustained commitment from community to national and international
levels, with academic and government institutions and non-governmental organisations.
Why we do what
we do
Because it's effective. In partnership, marginalised communities find and
develop their own voices and have them heard by those in power. They strengthen
leadership skills and communication capacity to improve their lives.
'There is no formula for good partnership, but it should be flexible, motivating and continuously meaningful to both partners.' Leonard Okello, former Director of SIPAA.
Our specialty lies in:
- Enabling poor and vulnerable people to voice their own health needs
- Helping to develop health communication strategies owned and implemented at local level
- Providing training in health communication and advocacy
- Facilitating health policy dialogue to establish health priorities
- Developing innovative tools and techniques to strengthen communication capacity
- Delivering information and knowledge on public health through print and electronic media, and by supporting networking and resource centre development
- Providing consultancy services in health communication.
Our approach
We work on small- and large-scale projects and programmes to promote and facilitate
capacity building in communication, information and knowledgement, and learning.
Our networks bring together communities, organisations and decision makers.
We listen to what our partners need and act to support them whether that's
by creating resources, supporting resource centres, helping organisations
to evaluate what they have learned, communication training, providing access
to information or promoting advocacy activities. We formed 30 years ago to
bridge the gap between information needs and information availability. Thirty
years on we're still finding innovative ways of working to help partners
communicate and provide information where it is needed the most.
'Healthlink believes passionately in sharing knowledge. It is what our work is based on. We have spent 30 years making linkages in partnerships and have never worked alone.' Andrew Chetley, Executive Director, Healthlink Worldwide
Want to read more?
Read the latest annual review (PDF 11 pages, 2 MB)
Read the 2008-9 summary financial report (PDF 32 pages, 600 KB)
Information on our charitable status (PDF 21 pages, 108 KB)
Find out more about our work:
More on our
projects (Projects and Issues)
More on the
processes we use (What we Do)