Global health
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A thirst for change: frontline voices on World Water Day
Today, on World Water Day, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) stands in solidarity with health and humanitarian workers in local communities across the globe who are battling the daily realities of climate change and water insecurity. Water is the foundation of human health, yet climate-driven extremes—ranging from severe droughts to catastrophic floods—are fundamentally threatening access…
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You cannot therapize an occupation
A child born in Gaza in 2007 is now “six wars old.” That phrase, buried in an academic paper published this month in the International Review of Psychiatry, should stop you cold. It distills, in four words, what pages of clinical data struggle to convey: that for an entire generation, the interval between one catastrophe and the…
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How do we measure the value of peer learning for malaria national programme staff?
The following is based on a presentation delivered by Reda Sadki, Executive Director of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) on 17 March 2025 at the headquarters of RBM Partnership to End Malaria in Geneva, Switzerland. The transcript has been edited for clarity. TGLF and RBM formed a partnership in November 2024. This is a brief…
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What health workers learned by sharing experience of HPV vaccination efforts
In October 2025, a health worker named Waheed Ali Soomro arrived at a school in Hyderabad, Pakistan, to vaccinate girls against human papillomavirus, or “HPV”. The parents were already angry. Their daughters had been lined up without prior notice, and WhatsApp rumors about the vaccine causing infertility had reached the community before Soomro did. He…
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“Scholar one day, Scholar always”: Inside the last-mile global health network that runs on trust
This article is part of a series celebrating the tenth anniversary of The Geneva Learning Foundation. At 12:40 p.m. Kinshasa time on March 11, 2026, Simon Mukundi Badinenganyi logged into a Zoom call from Kananga, in the Kasaï Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He typed a greeting to the hosts, then…
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New evidence for the significance of community-based peer review for health equity
In September 2025, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) launched the first Certificate peer learning programme for equity and research and practice. Health workers, a plurality of them sub-national government staff, came together for an intensive 16-day learning journey. This article shares what we learned by examining community-based peer review feedback between learners. A thirteen-year-old girl…
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“We are the ones who are there every day”: How a global network of health workers is closing the last-mile gap
On March 11, 2026, six years after the world shut down for a pandemic, a private event will reconvene Alumni of the COVID-19 Peer Hub. This initiative, led by more than 6,000 immunization staff, was one of the first ground-up responses to recover from the early impacts of the pandemic on vaccination services worldwide. Froma…
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Comparative analysis of malaria workforce development models
The stagnation in global malaria mortality reduction calls for a re-evaluation of the malaria workforce development models currently deployed in high-burden countries. While biological challenges such as insecticide resistance and parasite mutations are well-documented, a critical bottleneck remains the capacity of the human workforce to implement technical strategies with precision. The transition from control to…
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Rethinking human resources for malaria control and elimination in Africa
The comprehensive policy review by Halima Mwenesi and colleagues “Rethinking human resources and capacity building needs for malaria control and elimination in Africa” argues that the stagnation in global malaria progress is fundamentally a human resources crisis rather than solely a biological or technical failure. The authors posit that the current workforce is insufficient in…
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Evaluation of a capacity building intervention on malaria treatment for children
The study by Ayodele Jegede and colleagues “Evaluation of a capacity building intervention on malaria treatment for under-fives in rural health facilities in Niger State, Nigeria” provides a rigorous evaluation of a standard “cascade training” intervention. The intervention followed the classic global health model where national experts trained state trainers who then trained local government…
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