Author: Reda Sadki
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When we get health wrong, people die: Designing artificial intelligence to serve community health
This is the edited transcript of a talk by Reda Sadki, founder of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), prepared for Global AI Day in Geneva on 6 May 2026. Global AI Day is a global observance dedicated to AI awareness and human-centred adoption. In Geneva, the day brought together innovators, citizens, students, and community members…
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World Malaria Day: what frontline health workers are saying about malaria, and why it matters
The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is pleased to announce ‘Malaria: Turning the Tide’, the first peer learning course by and for health workers. Learn more about the course… Enroll now in English or French. This article is based on experiences shared by health workers during the live event ‘Malaria: Turning the Tide’ on 23 April…
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Turning the tide: 8 practical insights to end malaria
This article walks through the eight findings and the recommendations based on the report ‘Malaria: Turning the Tide’. These findings have specific relevance for community health workers, managers and planners, and global partners. The full report carries more contributors, more countries, and more operational detail than any single article can. Read it. Practical knowledge you…
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A short history of the first five years of Teach to Reach
The following is an edited transcript of oral remarks delivered by Reda Sadki on 26 April 2026, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Teach to Reach. The text has been lightly tidied for clarity, grammar, and flow. Teach to Reach is a peer learning platform, network, and community hosted by The Geneva Learning…
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Ten years of peer learning and action: The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Alumni, in their own words
“If she still has the will to learn, and there is support to help her, who are we to stop her?” Those words came from a traditional leader in Bauchi State, Nigeria. A man who had previously opposed girls returning to school after becoming mothers. He said them out loud, in a room full of…
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Measles as a test of trust: two numbers, one warning
The headline number from the WHO Regional Office for Africa’s new report is designed to reassure. Nearly 20 million measles deaths have been averted in the African Region since 2000, and 500 million children have been reached through routine immunization in one generation. Gavi’s press release amplifies that figure, and Dr. Sania Nishtar calls it…
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Future of the workforce: the 780 million job gap, the AI reckoning, and the missing link in the World Bank’s biggest bet
Ajay Banga does not speak like a development banker. He speaks like a businessman who has stared at a demographic cliff and decided it is actually a launching pad. His framing, repeated in every forum he enters, is stark: 1.2 billion young people will enter the workforce over the next decade and a half, against…
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Unlocking vaccines and pharmaceutical manufacturing potentials in Africa
This article is a summary of UNIDO’s October 2025 report, “Unlocking Vaccines and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Potentials in Africa: Guidelines for Effective Investment Promotion, Innovative Finance, and Regulatory Frameworks.” The core argument Africa produces less than 1% of its vaccines and a limited share of its essential medicines, despite carrying a disproportionate share of the global…
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AI self-replacement: what happens when we delegate our thoughts to artificial intelligence?
In my Day 1 article, I wrote that the OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 conference documented performance gains alongside learning losses, efficiency alongside declining human competence, and the emergence of what Dragan Gasevic called “metacognitive laziness.” I described a day that did not offer comfort. Where the first day established the tension between performance and…
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One hand reaching for another: the health and humanitarian workers building a global network from clinics, conflict zones, and community halls
On the evening of March 30, 2026, Dr. Saeda Nahid Sultana logged into a global network from Bangladesh as rain and thunderstorms battered her city. It was 7:35 p.m. local time. Her internet connection was unstable. She stayed anyway. Halfway around the world, in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, Tamrat Boro had joined the same…
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