EXPERTISE FRANCE

Malaria Podcast

L’Initiative from the Expertise France organization, is a French facility that speeds up the fight against major pandemics and helps countries improve people’s access to quality health services.

Lalicorn handled the design and post-production of a five-episode podcast for L’Initiative on the impact of climate change on malaria in Africa.

EPISODES

Background

In December 2024 in Musanze, Rwanda, L’Initiative organised a training workshop on how climate change affects malaria. Participants from 19 French-speaking sub-Saharan African countries gathered to share experiences and, alongside researchers and other specialists, discuss new control strategies.

Works

SIMPLIFYING

Our first task, well before the recording, was to find a physician who was also a journalist and well-versed in malaria issues. Her role was to work with the guests on the answers they would give, helping them simplify their messages.

Indeed, the podcast had to be accessible to a broad audience.

ADVISING

Our second task was to give the project manager technical guidance so she could record high-quality audio on her own, without a sound engineer on site.

EDITING

Then came the long editing phase: trimming the lengthy interviews, weaving in recordings from the participating African researchers and physicians, plus the host’s extra takes and a man-on-the-street segment.

To give the podcast a distinct identity, we created signature stingers, added an energetic music, and regularly sprinkled in quirky audio snippets and African nature sounds to keep the episodes lively. Finally, we applied the finishing touch with the mix—and voilà!

What would your story sound like? Let’s find out and create a podcast that moves your audience.