Panu Saaristo
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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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TGLF welcomes Panu Saaristo as first Fellow for humanitarian health
Panu Saaristo is our first Fellow for humanitarian health We are pleased to announce that Panu Saaristo has accepted our invitation to become the First Fellow for Humanitarian Health of The Geneva Learning Foundation. The title is thematic rather than honorific. TGLF Fellowships sit inside specific fields of practice, and humanitarian health is a field…
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How practitioners in Ukraine and across Europe built a self-sustaining peer learning network to support children
When military fathers started arriving at her centre in Bulgaria, sharing challenges they faced with their own children, Irina V. found herself drawing on lessons learned not from textbooks, but from conversations with fellow practitioners scattered across a war zone. “What I learned about providing psychological first aid (PFA) to children actually helped me in…
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#Ambulance! Partnering with ICRC’s Health Care in Danger to scale peer learning for frontline pre-hospital emergency care staff and volunteers
On Wednesday, 17 May 2017, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convened its Health Care in Danger Annual Meeting at the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva. During the afternoon session regarding training and education initiatives related to the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) project, Reda Sadki presented the outcomes of the #Ambulance! initiative. Sadki…
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