lived experience
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Menopause: what health workers already know, in their own words
On 22 June 2026, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in partnership with Menoglobal, launched the peer learning course “Beyond the hot flash: A primer for health workers about menopause”. This article explores the experiences and insights that learners shared in their first week. When you were asked to describe yourselves on the first day of…
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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)
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 matters. A suspected Ebola patient walked…
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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)
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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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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