Dear Readers,

This year, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) celebrates its tenth anniversary.

We now connect 80,000 health and humanitarian workers from more than 100 countries who chose to learn differently, lead locally, and refuse the idea that change has to wait for the next expert to fly in.

You built this.

Not us.

You.

Every course you completed, every peer you supported, every action plan you submitted and revised by the midnight deadline.

You are what The Geneva Learning Foundation is all about.

Tell us your TGLF story and what you want from TGLF in the future.

Everything we are doing to mark that anniversary is designed to do one thing: give you more.

More courses, more pathways to lead change, deeper support to turn learning into action in your community.

This newsletter arrives whenever there is something worth your attention: a new course or programme opening, a story from a Scholar using what they learned to make a difference in their community, or an insight from the network that is too good to keep to ourselves.

Best regards,

Reda Sadki and Charlotte Mbuh
The Geneva Learning Foundation

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Ten years: A second decade of impact.

The Geneva Learning Foundation Scholar Newsletter – Inaugural issue (8 April 2026)

📋 Enroll now: every course will help you grow as a leader 

Some courses are already open. Others open when you invite your colleagues to join you. Think of one or two people who are working on the same challenges you face. Use the sharing buttons. Even better, send them a personal message with the link. Your invitation is what opens the course.

Our shared challenge of ageing: a primer for health workers

Population ageing is arriving fastest in the places with the least infrastructure to support it. This new certificate programme supports you to lead change for healthy ageing in your community, working with peers from dozens of countries facing the same challenge.

Learn more about Healthy Ageing certification | Enroll now

One Health: Connecting people, animals, and the environment

Zoonotic disease, antimicrobial resistance, and the climate-health interface all require health workers who can think and act across the human-animal-environment boundary. This programme builds those competencies through peer learning with colleagues working across sectors.

Learn more about One Health certification | Enroll now

Learn to lead malaria control and elimination

Malaria control and elimination requires a health workforce that can use data, introduce life-saving innovations, and adapt protocols to the specific ecology of their district. This programme, developed in partnership with the Gates Foundation, connects you with peers leading that work across endemic countries. You can already join the Teach to Reach Special Event, organized with RBM Partnership to End Malaria.

Join the Malaria Special Event now. You will then be first to receive the invitation to join the new programme.

Read the new article by Reda Sadki and Charlotte Mbuh: “Rethinking human resources for malaria control and elimination in Africa”

Noncommunicable diseases in humanitarian settings

A crisis cuts off a mother’s insulin. A grandfather loses his blood pressure medication. A child can no longer access their inhaler. NCDs do not pause for emergencies, but most humanitarian training acts as though they do. This new peer learning course, developed with Dr. Shanthi Mendis (retired WHO Senior Adviser for NCDs), gives you frameworks and peer-reviewed strategies you can use this week.

Learn more about NCD certification | Enroll now

Get the new guide for health managers: AI as Co-Worker for Health

Artificial intelligence is already in your workplace: in diagnostics, in data systems, in the tools your colleagues use in secret because there are no rules yet. This programme is for health and humanitarian professionals who want to lead their organizations’ response to AI, rather than wait for a policy from headquarters that may never arrive. We believe this is a paradigm change.

Get the Guide on LinkedIn | Learn more about AI4Health certification

Gender in emergencies

You do not need to pay to get your first certification in gender for emergencies. Built by and for practitioners, this primer is for humanitarians starting their journey to advance gender equality in crises.

Learn more about Gender in emergencies certification | Enroll now

Learning together to lead change on the frontline of climate change and health

The climate crisis is not a future scenario. It is your patients’ reality right now: changing disease patterns, heat stress, disrupted supply chains, and community resilience under pressure. This programme connects you with peers who are leading adaptation responses at the frontline, and supports you to develop and implement your own.

Learn more about this certification | Enroll now

Equity in research and practice (HEART)

Health equity is not a value statement. It is a set of practical skills: knowing who is missing from your data, understanding the structural roots of that absence, and building an action plan with your community to close the gap. The HEART certificate programme gives you the analytical architecture to do exactly that.

Join the Special Event “Equity matters: A practical approach to identify and eliminate biases” | Enroll now

Teach to Reach: Get started with HPV vaccination (and keep it going)

Whether you are supporting routine immunization, zero-dose outreach, or outbreak response, this programme connects you with thousands of peers who are working through the same challenges you are. The evidence from this network helped rewrite the global playbook on implementation. Come add your experience.

See what health workers learned from this course | Enroll now

Decolonization of global health

Global health has a hierarchy problem. The people closest to the communities bearing the highest burden of disease are routinely positioned as recipients of guidance, not as its authors. This programme gives you the critical frameworks – and a global community of peers – to challenge that hierarchy and lead differently.

Learn more about Decolonization certification | Enroll now

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)

Alongside our special event on Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), we are preparing a masterclass with Dr Dirk Engels, retired director of NTDs at the World Health Organization (WHO). We will walk with Dirk to chart his experience, from a field clinic in Zimbabwe to the headquarter of WHO in Geneva. What has changed in the global health landscape? Why are these diseases still neglected?

Learn more → 

🎬 Before you enroll: listen to our 2025 Year in Review

2025 was the last year of our first decade — and, for many, a difficult one. Global health funding collapsed. Climate change impacts on health became a daily operational emergency. AI started to widen the gap between the well-resourced and everyone else. The network held. Whose Knowledge Counts? tells the story of that year: 60,000 health workers across 137 countries who kept going — not because of per diems, but because the problems in their communities did not wait for the funding to return.

Watch the 2025 Year in Review (English) → 

Écouter la Rétrospective 2025 (Français) → 

Missed 2024? Listen here →

📖 Reading worth your time

TGLF’s founder, Reda Sadki, publishes on redasadki.me. Recent articles you do not want to miss:

• Your organization’s pre- and post-test cannot tell you whether training changed anything — here is the evidence, and what to do instead.
• A single malaria peer learning event outperformed a four-month programme on professional influence — here is how we measured it.
• Health workers from 40 countries independently reached the same conclusion about HPV vaccine hesitancy: the problem is not that parents lack information.
• The humanitarian sector’s MHPSS model may be making things worse in Gaza — a rigorous, uncomfortable argument.
• AI can improve task performance while making you worse at thinking — what the OECD findings mean for health workers.
• Frontline workers describe the water crisis in words no policy brief can: voices from Togo, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ghana.

Subscribe to receive articles as soon as they are published → 

🔜 Opening soon: watch for the links

The following programmes do not have enrolment links yet. Each one will be announced in a future issue of this newsletter. If one of these topics is part of your work, this is your reason to open next week’s edition.

For every one of these programmes: you will learn with peers. You will develop an action plan for your own context. And if you are ready to go further, the Impact Accelerator will support you to execute that plan week by week – and produce evidence that your actions made a difference. 

What is the Impact Accelerator? → 

Beyond the hot flash: A primer for health workers about menopause

Menopause affects every woman who lives long enough. Yet in most health systems, it is invisible. No screening. No vocabulary. No budget. Women suffer in silence. And the system looks the other way. This course is being developed in partnership with Menoglobal, the first international organization dedicated to making menopause a global health priority. 

Psychological first aid and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)

The populations you serve have experienced loss, displacement, and ongoing crisis. So have many of you. This programme gives you validated tools to provide psychological first aid and to design MHPSS responses that are grounded in your community’s culture and context.

Organizational development and leadership

How do you lead change inside an institution that was not designed for the change you know is needed? This programme is for health system leaders who want frameworks and peer support to build the organizational conditions for sustained improvement.

Food security and nutrition

Food insecurity and malnutrition are health system problems. This programme helps you understand the intersections, assess the situation in your district, and identify what you can do – within the resources you actually have.

Public good or private profit? A dialogue for health professionals about the privatization of health care

Health systems everywhere are navigating the expansion of private actors – with consequences for equity, access, and accountability that fall unevenly on the communities you serve. This programme helps you understand the dynamics, analyze your own context, and lead a response.

What happens to markets when a disaster strikes?

When funding collapses, supply chains break, or economic shocks hit, health markets behave in ways that guidelines do not prepare you for. This programme connects you with peers navigating those realities and gives you tools to protect service continuity.

🌍 In case you missed it: the Alumni Ambassadors call

On March 11, we opened the global call for TGLF Alumni Ambassadors – and it filled fast.

You will be genuinely amazed by the Ambassadors’ stories.

The call was for Scholars who have completed at least one TGLF programme and are ready to take on a mandate to lead: connecting peers, bridging the gap between global guidance and local action, and building the network from within.

314 Ambassadors have now been appointed: 167 from the DRC, 147 from Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda (the first cohort, 2023), with 536 more currently completing the activation. The programme is now closed for this round.

If you missed it: the next call will come in this newsletter.

The way to be ready is to stay in the network, share your experience, and complete courses.

We find our best Ambassadors among the Scholars who are already making a difference, because they choose to.

Watch future editions of this newsletter for the next opening. 

Coming in future issues

Thanks for reading to the end! Here is a preview of what is coming in future issues:

• The TGLF Local Leadership Competency Framework is your career road map, built from ten years of listening to 70,000 frontline workers and the Manifesto developed at Teach to Reach. You can use it to map your next move – and choose the best path to learn and grow.
• The learning-to-action theory that Reda Sadki is publishing for our tenth anniversary – and how you can use it to accelerate progress on the challenges that matter to you and the community you serve.
• An introduction to Claude Cardot , our first agentic AI co-worker – and what we are learning from hiring AI as a colleague, not a tool.
• And yes – our very own anniversary song and video. Because ten years of your work deserves a proper celebration.