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Our Work

Programmes, learning tools and communication built around understanding.

AFHEG combines digital learning, serious games, youth-led engagement, health communication and research because health literacy is not built through one format alone.

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Digital learning

Smarty Health Info Hub

Smarty is AFHEG's digital learning platform for young people. It brings together structured health and climate content through courses, quizzes, video lessons, explainers, podcasts, certificates and game-based learning.

The platform is designed to extend learning beyond one-off events and to support both school-based and individual learning.

Serious games & simulations

Decision-making becomes the learning environment.

Implemented

Super Bugs Clash

A cooperative antimicrobial-resistance board game built around antibiotic use, self-medication, medicine sharing, adherence and One Health. AFHEG has documented 200 sessions across Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono.

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Developed

Mind Path Journey

A mental-health learning game designed to open practical conversations around wellbeing, choices, support and help-seeking.

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In development

Healthcare Under Pressure

A health-systems simulation exploring capacity, roles, resource pressure and the way decisions in one part of a system affect another.

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In development

Signal to Action

A public-information simulation focused on how people receive, verify, simplify and communicate information under pressure.

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Youth-led engagement

Health Defenders

The Health Defenders Programme develops young people as peer communicators and community-engagement actors. Participants build practical skills in health literacy, facilitation, communication and responsible information-sharing.

The programme is designed so learning can move beyond AFHEG-led sessions and continue through peer interaction, school activity and community engagement.

Health communication

Make complex information clearer without making it careless.

AFHEG works with young people, students, institutions and programme teams on health communication, storytelling, risk communication, audience understanding, misinformation, facilitation and communicating evidence responsibly.

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Research & learning

Programmes should generate questions as well as answers.

Implementation learning

Documenting who participates, what is delivered, what works operationally and where delivery needs to improve.

Evaluation

Tracking immediate learning, participant experience and the limits of what programme data can support.

Research partnerships

Working toward stronger evidence on retention, behaviour, implementation fidelity and how learning tools perform across contexts.

Thematic focus

Where AFHEG applies its learning model.

AMR & One Health

Antibiotic use, resistance, health-seeking decisions and human-animal-environment connections.

Climate & health

How environmental change, climate pressures and health connect in everyday life.

Mental health

Wellbeing, stigma, communication, support and help-seeking.

Sexual & reproductive health

Youth-centred, understandable health information and discussion.

Health systems literacy

Patient safety, capacity, access, system pressure and service trade-offs.

Risk & public information

Verification, interpretation, simplification and responsible communication.

Work with AFHEG

Start with the learning problem.

AFHEG works with partners on research and evaluation, programme implementation, school and community delivery, serious-game deployment and adaptation, digital learning, youth engagement, health communication and co-designed learning experiences.

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