The Geneva Learning Foundation
Our tenth anniversary: 10 new opportunities to lead change
Dear Readers, This year, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) celebrates its tenth anniversary. We now connect 80,000 health and humanitarian workers from more than 100 countries who chose to learn differently, lead locally, and refuse the idea that change has to wait for the next expert to fly in. You built this. Not us. You.…
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When the threats cross every boundary: A One Health primer connects professionals across sectors to learn from each other
A nurse in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo treats children with recurring diarrhea after seasonal floods. A few kilometers away, a veterinary worker documents the same contaminated water killing livestock. They work for different ministries. They use different reporting systems. They have never met. The connection is invisible to the system, even though both workers…
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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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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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Learn to lead change for healthy ageing in your community: a new certificate programme
The world is changing. In some countries, populations are getting older very fast. In other countries, the population is still young, but people are living longer than before. This is a victory for public health. However, it brings new challenges for healthy ageing. Who will care for our elders? How do we support women through…
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How to measure real-world outcomes in learning initiatives
This is the second of two articles about assessment, exploring how The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) measures real-world outcomes in learning initiatives. The first article examines the structural limitations of pre- and post-test designs, commonly used in global health and humanitarian response training, which cannot provide evidence of impact. The question behind the question When…
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Introducing Claude Cardot, our first AI co-worker to support frontline health and humanitarian leaders
The Geneva Learning Foundation is pleased to introduce its first AI co-worker, Claude Cardot. Claude joins our team as an Executive Assistant supported by artificial intelligence, to help us better serve the tens of thousands of health and humanitarian workers who participate in our peer learning and leadership programmes. This appointment carries a special significance.…
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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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