health equity
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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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Beyond the hot flash: A primer for health workers about menopause
Ageing primer | Equity programme | Gender in emergencies Menopause affects every woman who lives long enough. Yet in most health systems, it is invisible. No screening. No vocabulary. No budget. Women suffer in silence. And the system looks the other way. You are here to change that. Invite your colleagues on WhatsApp, Gmail, Yahoo…
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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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From diagnosis to duty: health workers confront their own role in inequity
A thirteen-year-old girl in Nigeria, bitten by a snake, arrived at a hospital with her frantic family. The hospital demanded payment before administering the antivenom. The family could not afford it. The girl died. This was one of the stark stories shared by health professionals on September 10, 2025, during “Exploration Day,” the third day…
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The practitioner as catalyst: How a global learning community is turning frontline experience into action on health inequity
“In this phase of my life, I want to work directly with the communities to see what I can do,” said Dr. Sambo Godwin Ishaku, a public health leader from Nigeria with over two decades of experience. His words opened the second day of The Geneva Learning Foundation’s first-ever peer learning exercise on health equity.…
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The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (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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