global health
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You cannot download a data centre: what does AI sovereignty mean for ministries of health?
A Q&A with The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Reda Sadki, based on his remarks on the panel “After World Labs: Is the Standalone AI Model Era Ending?”. What the panel asked On 3 October 2026, Reda Sadki joined an online panel convened by the AI for Developing Countries Forum as part of its weekly AI review.…
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What does the Jevons Paradox mean for artificial intelligence in global health?
This Q&A with TGLF’s Reda Sadki is based on his remarks at the 26 September 2026 panel titled “Will Cheaper AI Automate Everything? The Economics of AI, the Jevons Paradox, and the Outsourcing of Human Judgment”. The other panelists were Valerie Pelton, General Counsel, Tracked Biotechnologies LLC, United States; Dr. Craig Gibbs, Executive Manager, JET…
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Are courses obsolete?
The most criticised container in education is also the most durable. Here is what we learned from health workers participating in The Geneva Learning Foundation’s courses about why that is so difficult to change. The obituary that keeps being written In 2013, Sebastian Thrun looked at the completion rates for the massive open online courses…
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What is the Validation Tether?
In an experiment published in 2023, Lucía Vicente and Helena Matute asked participants to make decisions with recommendations from an artificial intelligence system. The system sometimes gave flawed advice. Among the participants, 80.7% detected errors and still followed the recommendations. They knew that a problem existed, but detection did not give them enough confidence or…
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What 30 years of meeting science tells global health
Steven Rogelberg, Liana Kreamer, and Jon Gray have published a review of three decades of research on meetings in the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. Anyone who funds or attends convenings in global health should read it, because it settles a number of questions we have been arguing from intuition. It also…
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Artificial intelligence for global health: a tragedy of the commons brewing in Geneva’s basement
In “The Machine in Geneva’s Basement”, Rifat Hossain sets the scene for the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the World Health Organization (WHO) with a story. A ministry official points a general-purpose assistant at WHO’s own open guidance library and has a serviceable national protocol before lunch. If this is possible, he asks, why…
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Joseph WATO nommé premier Fellow pour la transformation de la santé mondiale
English | Français Genève, le 9 juillet 2026 (La Fondation Apprendre Genève) – Nous avons le plaisir et l’honneur d’annoncer que Joseph WATO a été nommé par la Fondation Apprendre Genève le premier Fellow pour la transformation de la santé mondiale. Joseph WATO : du village à la table du conseil « Vous allez à Genève. Vous…
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Joseph WATO appointed first TGLF Fellow for the transformation of global health
English | Français Geneva, 9 July 2026 (The GEneva Learning Foundation) – We are pleased to announce that Joseph WATO is the first Fellow of The Geneva Learning Foundation for the transformation of global health. Joseph WATO: from the village to the board table “You go to Geneva. You sit in all these meetings. How…
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Rapid gender analysis: what we know so far about the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, more than half of the people who are getting sick with Ebola are women and girls. This has happened in past Ebola outbreaks too. This Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) reviews what the evidence shows, and what it does not yet show, about gender in this outbreak.…
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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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