Understand your health.
Making Health Human helps people understand their health and the science behind it, so they can make better-informed decisions in real life.
What MHH does
Health information often arrives when people are already overwhelmed: after a diagnosis, in a frightening headline, through an unfamiliar medical term or in a flood of conflicting advice online. MHH makes trustworthy health information easier to understand, question and use.
We do that in three ways: practical evidence for living well, clear guidance around health conditions, and plain-language explanations of health research.
Where we're starting
MHH is starting with diabetes as its first full health hub rather than trying to cover every condition at once. From there, the platform will expand carefully into other areas of health while building practical tools such as Starter Packs for people navigating a new diagnosis.
Why I started this
I'm Nomi (Nomcebo Jele), a science communicator from Pretoria, based in Germany since 2017. Working in health communication, I kept coming across useful research, courses, tools and patient resources sitting on completely different platforms and reaching very different audiences. I started MHH because useful health knowledge should be easier to discover and easier to understand.
It's grounded in a simple idea inspired by Ubuntu: we understand health better together.
How MHH thinks about communication
Good science cannot improve people's lives if it never reaches them in a form they can understand, question and use. MHH starts by listening to what people are actually asking, then makes reliable evidence clearer without stripping away its complexity, limitations or uncertainty.
Health also happens in real life. Culture, money, geography, access to care, work, family and the environments people live in all shape what health advice means in practice. MHH therefore looks beyond a single country or health system, with African and diaspora communities deliberately included rather than treated as an afterthought.
Who I am , and who I'm not
I'm a communicator, not a clinician. MHH provides educational information and research communication; it does not diagnose, treat or replace advice from a qualified healthcare professional.
Transparency
I work in communications at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). Making Health Human is my independent personal project and does not speak for or represent EASD. EASD resources appear only where they meet the same criteria used to select resources from other organisations.
How MHH chooses information
- Start with credible sources: scientific societies, public-health bodies, established patient organisations, research institutions and peer-reviewed evidence.
- Go to the original: where possible, MHH links to the study, guideline or organisation behind a claim.
- Explain, don't oversell: uncertainty and limitations matter.
- Make it useful: information should help answer a real question, not simply repeat a press release.
- Look beyond one health system: MHH deliberately seeks international, African and diaspora perspectives.
- Stay transparent: relevant affiliations, conflicts and limitations are disclosed.