Our Story
Millions of young people around the world are getting sick or injured because they lack basic health education.
The scientific community knows how to prevent or treat many medical conditions. Yet each year, millions of young people get sick, injured, or die because they lack the access to or don’t understand the existing health information.
The knowledge to prevent injury and disease exists; it's just not being communicated and distributed effectively.
TeachAids is an award-winning social venture that creates breakthrough technology to solve persistent problems in health education around the world.
Spun out of Stanford University in 2009, the founding research behind TeachAids — a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization — was grounded in Dr. Piya Sorcar’s doctoral work. This effort grew into a collaborative consortium of world-class experts from disciplines including education, medicine, communications, technology, and design thinking. The Institutional Review Board-approved research and methodology has demonstrated statistically significant gains in learning and retention, and provided the highest learning effects and comfort rates of any tested educational approach.1
Our Methodology“TeachAids quantitatively and rigorously evaluates its impact using the ‘gold standard’ of assessment.”
DR. CLIFFORD NASS, Thomas More Storke Professor, Stanford University, Appointments in Communication, Computer Science, Education, Law, and Sociology
TeachAids’ breakthrough education product, Prevention Begins With Me, has been viewed by more than half a billion young people.
The interactive animated film educates youth on the prevention of HIV. Using animated characters and celebrity voices, Prevention Begins With Me is designed to provide robust health education while bypassing cultural taboos, dispelling myths, and reducing stigma. More than two dozen, culturally-specific versions of the product have been developed, and it has been viewed by hundreds of millions of young people in 82 countries.
Learn more about prevention begins with me“The HIV/AIDS curriculum is an example of a great idea, founded in very rigorous research methods. I’ve never seen anything scale as quickly or as well as this curriculum. It’s really quite remarkable.”
DR DOUGLAS OWENS, Director of the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcome Research, Stanford University
TeachAids’ latest health education initiative, CrashCourse, educates youth on the prevention and treatment of concussions.
Filmed in both Virtual Reality and standard video, this interactive learning experience puts students on the field during a football game. It features Stanford University football players, including All-American Bryce Love, sharing the latest medical knowledge from the world’s leading concussion experts. Our partnerships enable the CrashCourse products to reach more than 100 million medical professionals, caregivers, parents, athletes, coaches, and veterans in countries like the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Learn more about crashcourse“It’s not just in football, but across all sports. When these kids and parents come to our clinics they are starving for information. The power of CrashCourse is that it speaks to students in their own language. It’s going to make a huge impact around the world.”
DR. GERALD GRANT, Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center
