Professional learning
Courses for health, education, community and research settings, grounded in evidence and reflective practice.
Professional learning built around evidence, reflection and action.
HAW Academy is the learning arm of Health Agency Watch. It supports structured courses, accessible lessons, evidence panels, reflective activities, assessments and governed course review.
Evidence Hub
Course content includes references, review dates, limitations and practical implications.
Governed publishing
Content, evidence and accessibility reviews protect course quality before approval.
What the Academy helps people do
The Academy helps learners appraise health information, communicate uncertainty, understand misinformation dynamics and support others through culturally humble practice.
Courses combine focused teaching, evidence panels, scenarios, reflection prompts, knowledge checks and practical action steps.
- Course catalogue with audience, level and estimated time.
- Structured lessons with evidence and reflective activities.
- Accessible activities for keyboard and assistive-technology users.
- Role-based creator, reviewer and administrator workspaces.
- Clear course and certificate information where applicable.
A serious professional learning environment
HAW Academy is practical and welcoming without being casual about evidence, safeguarding, accessibility or claims.
Course pages explain the intended audience, learning scope, evidence basis, limitations and available recognition.
Evidence-first lessons
Learning content backed by source panels and review dates.
Reflection with purpose
Prompts connecting evidence to real communication and decision-making contexts.
Quality review
Separate content, evidence and accessibility checks before approval.
Content creation without coding
Authorised creators organise courses into modules and lessons, then add text, images, video, transcripts, captions, tables, charts and downloadable resources.
Preview, draft recovery, quality checks and review workflows support reliable publishing.
References behind this section
These sources make the evidence basis visible and help readers review the guidance, standards and research informing this page.
Reference standard
Health literacy
World Health Organization
Frames health literacy as a personal and organisational capability shaped by social, economic and communication conditions.
View sourceEvaluation framework
Evidence standards framework for digital health technologies
NICE
Informs how HAW should describe evidence quality, safety, usability and evaluation for future digital tools.
View sourceWeb standard
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2
W3C
Sets the accessibility benchmark used for HAW interface, content and interaction design.
View sourceService guidance
Testing for accessibility
GOV.UK Service Manual
Reinforces automated and manual accessibility testing as part of public-service quality assurance.
View sourceExplore practical tools
The tools area turns HAW evidence into structured prompts and workflows for everyday use.