New peer learning course: Turning the tide: learn from real-world health worker experience

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This course is part of the Certificate peer learning programme for health workers united to end malaria.

A peer learning course for everyone whose community faces malaria.

A course built on real stories from health workers

More than a thousand health workers shared their experience in the fight against malaria. They shared this during Teach to Reach 11, hosted by The Geneva Learning Foundation in partnership with RBM Partnership to End Malaria. We put their stories together in a report called Malaria: Turning the tide, published on World Malaria Day 2026. This course helps you read those stories, add your own, and learn from each other.

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This course is for anyone who works for health in a place where malaria is part of life.

Your job title does not need to say “malaria”. You may work in a clinic, a hospital, a district office, a national programme, a pharmacy, a drug shop, a private clinic, a lab, a faith-based facility, a research team, or a community. If the people you serve get malaria, this course is for you.

Are you national programme staff or global partner?

You already know the plans, the targets, and the rules. This course gives you something else. It gives you the voices of the people who carry out those plans every day, in their own words, from every country where malaria is endemic. You can test your next campaign, policy, or budget against what they live. Few things sharpen a plan as fast as one week of listening to the people who deliver it.

What you take home

1. A professional network of colleagues from all over the world, who stand with you in the fight against malaria.
2. Simple ideas from your peers that you can try in your own work this week.
3. Fresh eyes on a problem you face, from people who face it too.
4. Clear thinking on three big challenges in your malaria work, shaped by your own story and the stories of your peers.
5. A certificate of contribution from The Geneva Learning Foundation. It is set at EQF level 7. EQF means the European Qualifications Framework, a system used in Europe to compare studies and work between countries. Level 7 shows advanced professional work, strong thinking, and the ability to lead change.

Certification that opens new opportunities

You earn a certificate of contribution from The Geneva Learning Foundation. It is more than a certificate of attendance.

• It shows that you wrote a contribution from your own work, gave useful views to two peers, and made your own thinking stronger with their help.
• This course is also the door to an Impact Accelerator on the same three challenges.

There, the thinking you do here becomes the work you take into your practice over the months that follow, with a peer network that stays with you while you do it.

What makes this course different

You do not need a course to read a report. The value here is what happens when you bring your experience and meet the experience of others.

• You read what peers in every country where malaria is endemic have said, and you see your own work in their words.
• You tell one story from your work, and find a colleague far away solving the same problem in another way.
• You read the stories of others, and give them a view they could not see from inside their own place.
• You take back ideas that already worked somewhere, and shape them to fit your place.

This is how a real network forms. Not from lectures, but from sharing experience.

What happens in each step

Each step opens with a short set of real stories from health workers who live with malaria.

1. You read what they saw, what they tried, and what it taught them. Because the stories come from many places, patterns begin to show.
2. You start to see your own work more clearly. You see what is the same for everyone, and what is only true where you are.
3. Then the step opens a peer dialogue. You share your own story on the same theme, in your own words. You read what others have shared. You reply to them. They reply to you.

Each step adds a new layer of thinking, so by the end, you have both learned from others and built up your own thinking, ready for your course project.

Learn about eight thematic areas

The eight themes are:

1. Personal stories and the impact of malaria.
2. Malaria in your local area.
3. Malaria treatments.
4. Malaria prevention: bed nets.
5. Malaria prevention: mosquito control.
6. Malaria prevention: vaccines.
7. Making a difference.
8. Government action on malaria.

Your course project: three challenges you can act on

Your course project is focused work on three challenges that matter for the future of malaria, and for your work right now. For each one, you use what you have shared, what you have heard, and what you see around you. You leave with clear thinking and with actions you can take on the day you go back to work.

• Private providers. In many countries, most people go outside public clinics first. What does this mean for you? How could you, in your role, build a stronger link with private pharmacies, drug shops, private clinics, or faith-based facilities? What is one action you could take this month?
• Quality and use of local data. The numbers in the system often miss what health workers see. What does this mean for you? How could you make what you and your colleagues see count in the numbers that reach the people who decide? What is one action you could take this month?
• New malaria tools. New tools only work if the community accepts them. What does this mean for you? How could you help your community, or the communities you serve, get ready for a tool that is new to them? What is one action you could take this month?

You share your thinking on each one. Two peers read it and give you their view. You read three peers in return. You use what they say to make your thinking stronger. You walk away with three solid footholds for action, already tested against the thinking of people who do work like yours.