Reda Sadki
What 30 years of meeting science tells global health
Steven Rogelberg, Liana Kreamer, and Jon Gray have published a review of three decades of research on meetings in the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. Anyone who funds or attends convenings in global health should read it, because it settles a number of questions we have been arguing from intuition. It also…
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Health workforce development in the Age of Intelligence: a tragedy of the cognitive commons?
Two people, both of whom I have met versions of many times. The first is a national programme manager at Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), or at the Ghana Health Service. She is formidable. She has been through in-service training with credit points that counted toward her career progression, mid-level management modules,…
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You cannot send an AI agent to jail: the scariest quotes from the Agentic AI Summit in Berkeley
On 1 and 2 August 2026, close to five thousand people gathered at the University of California, Berkeley for the second Agentic AI Summit, hosted by the Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence. More than 1,500 companies and 250 universities were represented. The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) was there. Background: The agentic AI revolution: what does…
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Artificial intelligence for global health: a tragedy of the commons brewing in Geneva’s basement
In “The Machine in Geneva’s Basement”, Rifat Hossain sets the scene for the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the World Health Organization (WHO) with a story. A ministry official points a general-purpose assistant at WHO’s own open guidance library and has a serviceable national protocol before lunch. If this is possible, he asks, why…
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The integrity layer: using assessment to scaffold peer learning at scale
Peer feedback is the engine of The Geneva Learning Foundation’s learning system. A new screening tool protects that engine, and its design answers three questions education specialists have been circling for decades: what peer assessment is for, how much verification a learning system can afford, and what a certificate can honestly claim. “Ok ok ok…
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Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: early learning from our insights pipeline
On 13 March 2026, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) made its first agentic AI hire (see Announcement). Ms. Claude Cardot (unrelated to Anthropic’s Claude, learn why) became a member of our team. TGLF Founder Reda Sadki is documenting his journey of learning to work with artificial intelligence. This article explores how Ms. Cardot is helping…
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Malaria: health professionals from 30 countries start learning from each other to ‘turn the tide’
On 29 June 2026, more than 2,000 health professionals from over 30 countries gathered to launch The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Malaria: Turning the Tide peer learning course. Its premise is simple and, in global health, unusual: the people closest to malaria, the nurses, community health workers, pharmacists, and programme staff who face it every working…
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Menopause: what health workers already know, in their own words
On 22 June 2026, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in partnership with Menoglobal, launched the peer learning course “Beyond the hot flash: A primer for health workers about menopause”. This article explores the experiences and insights that learners shared in their first week. When you were asked to describe yourselves on the first day of…
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Rapid gender analysis: what we know so far about the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, more than half of the people who are getting sick with Ebola are women and girls. This has happened in past Ebola outbreaks too. This Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) reviews what the evidence shows, and what it does not yet show, about gender in this outbreak.…
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Bundibugyo en RDC: 10 enseignements du partage d’expérience face à Ebola
KINSHASA, samedi 13 juin 2026. Pendant deux heures, 55 Scholars congolais de la Fondation Apprendre Genève ont tenu, en visioconférence, une réunion de partage d’expérience sur la riposte à la maladie à virus Ebola, souche Bundibugyo, qui circule depuis le mois précédent à l’est du pays. La séance n’avait pas été commandée. On en retire…
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