We translate critical health information with speed, sensitivity, and accuracy helping public health organisations communicate clearly when it matters most.
Public health
Public health translation
Language that
saves lives
In public health, clear and timely communication encourages actions. Translating accurate and accessible information quickly can help protect communities and prevent escalation.
Another vital aspect is ensuring those translations are sensitively worded. For example, in a project about HIV, we created a termbase of phrases and language that should not be used, and the preferred alternatives – in multiple languages.
Our team is made up of a wide range of medical translators across the industry, from nurses and psychologists to clinical researchers. Due to our expertise and knowledge, we’re able to rapidly translate sensitive materials without losing clarity. We’ve worked with international health organizations, charities, and national health bodies to release information quickly and accurately. One of our most prominent projects was translating the communications around covid during the pandemic. In fact, one of the UK’s top public health bodies said:
“By turning around translations for COVID-19 and Flu within the requested (often challenging) timescales, maintaining good communication and often working in the early hours and over weekends to ensure delivery, you have contributed to the national public health response and together we have saved lives.”
Translations for public health responses
Our services cover the myriad of use cases within the public health sector and we’re ISO17100 and 9001 accredited. We can create voiceovers or subtitles for eLearning materials and other multimedia, allocate interpreters, and translate brochures and leaflets on subjects from vaccination to mental health.
With 20 years experience, 12,000 linguists, and 330+ language pairs, we can provide you with rapid, accurate translations.
Trusted by public health bodies
From global pandemics to community outreach, we help you communicate quickly, clearly, and compassionately across every language.
Public health and crisis response.
We’ve helped with everything from vaccination programmes to strategy responses for pandemics.
We provide translations on topics including mental health, nutrition, screening, and specific conditions like multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s.
Campaigns.
We’ve translated awareness campaigns, including publications on screening, childbirth, and dentistry.
Alternatively, we can ensure you are ready to to communicate globally through our other services, including:
Design.
We don’t just cover the words. We also offer multilingual typesetting and image adjustment, as well as voice-over work and video editing.
We can incorporate AI into our processes to increase the turnaround times on time-sensitive information. Additionally, we can ensure that your terminology is consistent across every translation, using a combination of translation memory and terminology management technologies.
Interpretation.
We can interpret real-time events such as press conferences or facilitate the communication between nations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Which public health sectors does Geo Language Services work with?
National public health bodies and ministries of health, the NHS and integrated care systems, local authorities and public health teams, international agencies (WHO, ECDC and regional equivalents), NGOs working on public health (immunisation, sexual health, mental health, refugee health), academic public health centres and public health communications agencies.
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How does Geo Language Services ensure sensitivity in wording?
Through linguist selection and inclusive-language principles. Public health content frequently addresses sensitive subject matter — mental health, sexual and reproductive health, substance use, stigmatised conditions, vulnerable populations — and linguists assigned to this work are briefed on the sensitivities involved and supported with trauma-informed and inclusive-language guidance where the content type calls for it.
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How does Geo Language Services respond effectively to translate time-sensitive information?
Through capacity planning, the possibility of on-call response for public health emergencies, and pre-agreed turnaround commitments for clients with recurring rapid-response needs. During acute public health events we have provided overnight and weekend turnaround for outbreak communications, immunisation guidance updates and emergency public information.
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Can Geo Language Services help with leaflets and brochures?
Yes. Patient-facing leaflets and public information brochures — immunisation, screening, condition management, healthy lifestyle, accessing services — are a regular public health workload. We handle translation, plain-language adaptation where needed, cultural review, typesetting in the source design tool, and accessibility features (Easy Read, large print, Braille, BSL video) as separate deliverables.
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Can Geo Language Services accommodate updates to public health materials?
Yes. Public health content updates frequently — changing guidance, emerging evidence, new outbreak information. We hold client-specific translation memory and termbases, so updates are translated efficiently against the existing content rather than from scratch. Version control and audit trails track every update for governance and FOI purposes.