Ageing primer | Equity programme | Gender in emergencies
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. You are here to change that.
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What you will take home
A shared language for the stages, symptoms, and screening of menopause care.
Simple screening questions you can integrate into routine visits tomorrow. No new tools required.
A map of long-term risks for preventing heart disease and osteoporosis, even without advanced diagnostics.
A credential that proves your contribution. Completing this primer earns recognition that validates your analysis and your context expertise. It also unlocks the full certificate programme, where you develop and implement a peer-reviewed action plan.
You are joining the first cohort of health workers building the evidence base for menopause care. Your experience and local knowledge are not just welcome. They are what makes this work.
Who this is for?
For health workers who see women every day but were never trained to recognize menopause. You see women aged 40 to 55 for contraception, blood pressure, or urinary infections. You treat symptoms one by one. But nobody taught you to ask the question that connects them all: “Could this be menopause?”
Menopause is not just hot flashes.
Women report severe joint pain, sleep problems, anxiety, vaginal dryness, or difficulty concentrating.
These are often mistaken for depression, aging, or hygiene problems.
This primer gives you a simple framework: A woman’s story can be a powerful diagnostic tool, even without a laboratory.
For doctors and specialists: You may already have deep clinical knowledge. But treating menopause in a hospital with full diagnostics is different from supporting women in a rural clinic with no lab, no hormone therapy, and no word for “perimenopause” in the local language. This course helps you adapt technical knowledge to your own context.
4 reasons to complete this primer
You join a global peer network. Thousands of health workers across 137 countries face the same challenges. Your local experience helps build new knowledge and insights to go from technical guidelines to effective local action.
You focus on your reality from day one. Every section asks you to reflect on the women you serve, your own clinic, your own community. The goal is to think through what you can do, now.
It respects your time. Short, text-only readings you can finish in about two hours. No long video lectures. Saves battery and bandwidth.
You get knowledge vetted by global experts. Every concept is grounded in evidence from Menoglobal, including the STRAW+10 framework for identifying the menopausal transition without lab tests.
The guide and the gateway
Built on global standards: This course was developed in partnership with Menoglobal, the first international organization dedicated to making menopause a global health priority. Every concept and screening framework reflects the highest clinical evidence adapted for frontline realities.
Where this takes you: This primer is also your entry point into The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Gender, Equity, and Aging certificate programme. It is the first step on a path from understanding to action: primer, peer learning exercises, and the Impact Accelerator where you implement and measure real change in your community.