lived experience
Teach to Reach: The music made in the room (article 1 of 3)
The first of three articles on the 4 June 2026 Teach to Reach Launch Event, this is the story of an hour that dissolved every border between the people in the room, and of why a frontline nurse, a markets economist, and a physiology lecturer turned out to belong in the same conversation. There is…
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Teach to Reach: what we do when there is fear in every health worker (article 2 of 3)
By Charlotte Mbuh and Reda Sadki The second of three articles on the 4 June 2026 Teach to Reach launch event, this one explores health worker responses to the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak and asks the question an epidemiologist cannot dodge: what is a roomful of self-selected stories actually good for, and why might it…
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Teach to Reach: honoring TGLF’s Scholars as leaders (article 3 of 3)
When you hand someone a microphone to celebrate them, most people tell you a success story. At this event, a teacher used his moment to confess a problem he cannot solve, and a lecturer described smuggling climate change into a medical curriculum. The last of three articles on the 4 June 2026 Teach to Reach…
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Teach to Reach: A question without a network, a course without experience, a network without action (article 4 of 4)
Teach to Reach is the largest peer learning platform, network, and community by and for health and humanitarian workers — launched by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in January 2021 out of an immunization training programme during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now in its fifth year. As part of TGLF’s tenth anniversary, each month a…
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Teach to Reach: Newborn care: a baby with no equipment, a woman with no words (article 3 of 4)
Teach to Reach is the largest peer learning platform, network, and community by and for health and humanitarian workers — launched by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in January 2021 out of an immunization training programme during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now in its fifth year. As part of TGLF’s tenth anniversary, each month a…
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Teach to Reach: The second microphone (article 2 of 4)
Teach to Reach is the largest peer learning platform, network, and community by and for health and humanitarian workers — launched by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in January 2021 out of an immunization training programme during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now in its fifth year. As part of TGLF’s tenth anniversary, each month a…
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Teach to Reach: The questions health workers cannot solve alone (article 1 of 4)
** WARNING: connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm. ** This session may be vulnerable to “store now, decrypt later” attacks. ** The server may need to be upgraded. See https://openssh.com/pq.html Teach to Reach is the largest peer learning platform, network, and community by and for health and humanitarian workers — launched by…
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Anecdote or lived experience: reimagining knowledge for climate-resilient health systems
A health worker in rural Kenya notices that malaria cases are appearing earlier in the season than usual. A nurse in Bangladesh observes that certain neighborhoods are experiencing more heat-related illnesses despite similar temperatures. These observations often remain trapped in the realm of “anecdotal evidence.” The dominant epistemological framework in public health traditionally dismisses such…
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