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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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“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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Investing in our shared future: learning, equity, and solidarity
For a decade, we have worked to transform how professionals learn, connect, and lead change. We have reached tens of thousands of participants in over 100 countries. If you have participated, you experienced the power of peer learning. When health and humanitarian workers support and learn from each other, they grow stronger. This speeds up…
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Artificial intelligence, real racism: why the code can’t fix ‘poverty porn’
The arrival of artificial intelligence in the global development and non-profit sectors has sparked a period of intense ethical reflection around what some are calling ‘poverty porn 2.0’. The visual ethics organization Fairpicture is tackling head-on the nascent public dialogue. Opening a “FairTalk” panel discussion on 11 February 2026, Fairpicture’s CEO Noah Arnold framed this…
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Book review: A handbook of learning for transformation
A cartography of learning for transformation The Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation offers a sweeping map of the territory of transformative learning. The editors have curated a massive collection of perspectives that stretch the boundaries of the field beyond its traditional roots in the work of Jack Mezirow. The volume is organized not as…
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The future of hybrid engagement: accelerated action to tackle global threats
How can we use the new physics of digital connections to save lives? What is the future of hybrid engagement? The ultimate test of any digital architecture is whether it can deliver results in the real world. In the context of global health, the challenge is bridging the “know-do gap.” This is the chasm between…
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