Creating and adapting animated videos for public health response and education

Scientific Animations Without Borders™ (SAWBO) is a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign based program. SAWBO transforms extension information on relevant topics such as agriculture, disease and women's empowerment, into 2D, 2.5D and 3D animations, which are then voice overlaid into a diversity of languages from around the world. All SAWBO animations are made freely available to anyone wishing to use them for educational purposes. Animations can be downloaded from a diversity of SAWBO channels and used on computers, tablets, cell phones, TVs, and overhead projection systems.

Dr. Bello-Bravo is an Assistant Director in the Center for African Studies.  She also works on the topic of how to increase inclusiveness of under-represented groups in educational networks and systems (Bello-Bravo et al., 2010).  She is co-PI on a USAID grant to develop novel extension strategies with applicability both internationally and with benefits to developing novel extension technologies for the benefit of the state of Illinois.  She is also the co-founder of Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) and the Sustainable Development Virtual Knowledge Interface (SusDeViKI).