Healthcare Explainers
Animated Condition & Treatment Guides
Animated videos making complex health conditions understandable for patients and families.
A consistent thread through my time at Cognitant was producing animated educational content for patients. Across a range of clients and conditions, the core challenge was always the same: take medical information that’s hard to understand and make it clear, approachable and useful.
I worked with medical writers, subject matter experts, patient advocacy groups and HCPs. I translated scripts into storyboards, developed visual analogies for complex medical concepts, and directed illustrators and animators through production.
For CareLoop, I art directed a series of introductory videos for a postnatal depression screening app, establishing the product’s visual identity in the process.
For the CATS Foundation, I helped develop the Toolkit for Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff disease — an animated resource for families navigating a rare and devastating diagnosis, designed to be shared with clinicians, carers and extended family.
I also worked on Staying Healthy, an internal series of 3D animated shorts exploring healthy eating and exercise. Modelled and animated in Blender, these were a chance to push the studio’s visual language into fully stylised 3D characters — a departure from the 2D work that made up most of the patient education output.
For Queen’s University Belfast, the brief was a series on Type 1 diabetes aimed at teenagers — covering not just the medical facts but the emotional and mental health dimensions.
Other projects included prostate cancer treatment options for the East of England Cancer Alliance, nutrition guidance for oesophageal and stomach cancer patients (Bristol Myers Squibb), and eczema and psoriasis explainers for the Primary Care Dermatology Society.
