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Climate and health: 20 local solutions shared by health professionals at Teach to Reach
These 20 local solutions are drawn from Teach to Reach 11: Local action to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis on health. They are not a substitute for the report, but a way into it: concrete examples that show what health workers and communities are actually doing when floods, heat, disrupted transport, and shifting…
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Panu Saaristo on NCDs in humanitarian settings: why local leadership is the missing key to humanitarian health
By Panu Eskola Saaristo, TGLF Fellow for Humanitarian Health Somewhere in a flooded district this week, a woman is trying to work out where next week’s insulin will come from. A man is learning that the clinic where he had his cancer follow-up is closed. They are not thinking about the humanitarian system. They are…
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Lessons in resilience: what health workers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America know and do in response to worsening climate change impacts on their communities
Between July 2023 and June 2026, a nascent global community of health and humanitarian workers connected to learn from and support each other. Working with The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), they built something that does not yet have a settled name in global health: a way to treat the observations of community-based health workers as…
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Національний хаб психічного здоров’я та психосоціальної підтримки Нідерландів приєднується до європейської мережі взаємного навчання з Першої психологічної допомоги
English | Українська мова Женева та Діймен, 11 червня 2026 року – Loket Ontheemden Oekraïne PSH (LOOP), національний хаб психічного здоров’я та психосоціальної підтримки (ПЗПО / MHPSS) Нідерландів для переміщених людей з України, приєднався до європейської мережі взаємного навчання з Першої психологічної допомоги (ППД) для дітей, яку координує Женевська освітня фундація (TGLF). LOOP стає найновішою…
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The Netherlands’ national MHPSS hub joins the European peer learning network for Psychological First Aid
English | Українська мова Geneva and Diemen, 11 June 2026 – The Loket Ontheemden Oekraïne PSH (LOOP), the Netherlands’ national hub for mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for displaced people from Ukraine, has joined the European peer learning network on Psychological First Aid (PFA) for children convened by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF). LOOP…
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Climate change and health: 14 recommendations for health workers, national planners, and global partners
This article presents 14 practical recommendations for action on climate change and health. The recommendations are grounded in the experiences shared by thousands of health workers and documented in the Teach to Reach 11 report “Local action to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis on health” The recommendations below are what we conclude when…
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Climate change and health: 8 take-aways from community-based responses
In Niger, the rains in 2024 were heavier than anyone alive could remember. Elders told Sidikou Issaka Maiga that they had never seen rainfall destroy so much in such a short time. The flooding washed away tracks, drowned crops, and cut whole villages off from the nearest health facility. The seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign was…
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Nouvelles perspectives: les acteurs locaux mènent la réponse face aux impacts du changement climatique sur la santé
English | Français GENÈVE, 4 juin 2026 (La Fondation Apprendre Genève) – La saison des pluies suivait autrefois un rythme que tout le monde connaissait. À partir de 2021, les grandes pluies de novembre, décembre, et février ont cessé de se comporter comme avant. La rivière Lubiji a débordé plus longtemps. Le seul moyen de…
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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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TGLF Scholar Newsletter #3: How to boost your career and grow as a leader
The Geneva Learning Foundation Scholar Newsletter, issue 3 (7 May 2026) Dear Reader You can do three things this week that will change the way you work. Each one takes less than three minutes. First, enroll today in the new malaria course. Need help to enroll? Watch the two-minute tutorial. It is built on what…
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