climate change
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Nouvelle formation par les pairs: Une seule santé: Tisser des liens entre humains, animaux, et l’environnement
Ce cours fait partie du Programme de certification par les pairs pour le leadership en changement climatique et santé. English | Français Inscrivez-vous maintenant. Puis invitez un collègue à vous rejoindre. Ne vous inscrivez pas seul à cette formation. Pensez à un collègue qui fait face aux mêmes défis que vous. Invitez cette personne. Cette…
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Nouvelle formation par les pairs: Apprendre ensemble à mener le changement sur le front du changement climatique et de la santé
Ce cours fait partie du Programme de certification par les pairs pour le leadership en changement climatique et santé. Programme de certification par les pairs pour le leadership en changement climatique et santé English | Français Bienvenue à la première formation par les pairs du Programme de certification par les pairs pour le leadership en…
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New insights report: Health workers are leading community responses to climate change impacts on health
English | Français GENEVA, 4 June 2026 (The Geneva Learning Foundation) – The rainy season used to follow a pattern that everyone knew. From 2021 onwards, the heavy rains in November, December, and February stopped behaving as they used to. The Lubiji river overflowed for longer. The only crossing to the maternity hospital, a pirogue,…
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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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Colonization, climate change, and indigenous health: from Algiers to Acre
I sat in a conference hall in Rio Branco, Acre State, Brazil. My mind was in a sanatorium of Algiers, Algeria. This was where my mother was sent as a girl. They told her she got tuberculosis because she was an “indigène musulman”. In 1938, the year of my mother’s birth and after over a…
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IAI and Geneva Learning Foundation announce partnership to strengthen educational programs in the Americas
English | Español PANAMA and GENEVA, 26 August 2025 – With the aim of strengthening regional capacity to address global challenges, the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) have signed a strategic partnership to expand transdisciplinary learning and action throughout the Americas. The agreement combines TGLF’s internationally recognized…
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IAI y Geneva Learning Foundation anuncian alianza para fortalecer programas educativos en las Américas
English | Español Con el objetivo de reforzar la capacidad regional para enfrentar desafíos globales, el Instituto Interamericano para la Investigación del Cambio Global (IAI) y la Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) han firmado una alianza estratégica destinada a ampliar el aprendizaje y la acción transdisciplinarios en todo el continente americano. El acuerdo combina las metodologías…
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WHO Global Conference on Climate and Health: New pathways to overcome structural barriers blocking effective climate and health action
After the World Health Assembly’s adoption of ambitious global plan of action for climate and health, global and country stakeholders are meeting in Brasilia for the Global Conference on Climate and Health, ahead of COP30. Three critical observations emerged that illuminate why conventional global health approaches may be structurally inadequate for the challenges resulting from…
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You are not alone: Health workers are sharing how they protected their communities when extreme weather hit
Today, The Geneva Learning Foundation launched a new set of “Teach to Reach Questions” focused on how health workers protect community health during extreme weather events. This initiative comes at a crucial time, as world leaders at COP29 discuss climate change’s mounting impacts on health. As climate change intensifies extreme weather events worldwide, health workers…
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Anecdote or lived experience: reimagining knowledge for climate-resilient health systems
A health worker in rural Kenya notices that malaria cases are appearing earlier in the season than usual. A nurse in Bangladesh observes that certain neighborhoods are experiencing more heat-related illnesses despite similar temperatures. These observations often remain trapped in the realm of “anecdotal evidence.” The dominant epistemological framework in public health traditionally dismisses such…
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