Global health
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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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Global health architecture: what are we missing?
The 79th World Health Assembly launched a formal process to reform the architecture that governs global health. The design of that process — who sits in the room, what questions it is permitted to ask, whose knowledge it is built to receive — will determine whether reform produces structural change or a more sophisticated version…
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TGLF welcomes Panu Saaristo as first Fellow for humanitarian health
Panu Saaristo is our first Fellow for humanitarian health We are pleased to announce that Panu Saaristo has accepted our invitation to become the First Fellow for Humanitarian Health of The Geneva Learning Foundation. The title is thematic rather than honorific. TGLF Fellowships sit inside specific fields of practice, and humanitarian health is a field…
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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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Beyond outputs, a scalable model for documenting child MHPSS outcomes in a crisis: remarks by Reda Sadki at the 18th European Public Health Conference
On November 12, 2025, the 18th European Public Health Conference hosted a symposium organized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The session, “The heart of resilience: lessons from mental health support for children and young people affected by conflict in Ukraine,” explored the large-scale mental health and psychosocial support…
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A global health framework for Artificial Intelligence as co-worker to support networked learning and local action
The theme of International Education Day 2025, “AI and education: Preserving human agency in a world of automation,” invites critical examination of how artificial intelligence might enhance rather than replace human capabilities in learning and leadership. Global health education offers a compelling context for exploring this question, as mounting challenges from climate change to persistent…
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Why an open-source manifesto for global health?
Lire la version française: Pourquoi un manifeste open-source pour la santé globale? The global immunization community is now focused on “the big catch-up”, dealing with recovery of immunization services from the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, as countries – and immunization staff on the frontlines – work toward the goals of Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).…
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Rising together: promoting inclusivity and collaboration in global health
The ways of knowing of health professionals who work on the front lines are distinct because no one else is there every day. Yet they are typically absent from the global table, even though the significance of local knowledge and action is increasingly recognized. In the quest to achieve global health goals, what value should…
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Credible knowers
“Some individuals are acknowledged as credible knowers within global health, while the knowledge held by others may be given less credibility.” – (Himani Bhakuni and Seye Abimbola in The Lancet, 2021) “Immunization Agenda 2030” or “IA2030” is a strategy that was unanimously adopted at the World Health Assembly in 2020. The global community that funds and supports…
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