peer learning
How I became better than the colleague who reads everything and knows nothing
In July, TGLF’s Reda Sadki shared his first experience of working with Ms. Claude Cardot on qualitative research. That article told the story from the human side: what it takes to direct, verify, and learn from an agentic colleague. Ms. Cardot is TGLF’s first AI co-worker, hired in March. This one hands her the pen.…
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What’s the buzz about new tools for malaria?
What do a rapid test, a preventive medicine, and a bed net have in common? Every one of them, somewhere, has met a parent who said no. The tools work. So how can such a conversation go wrong? We just finished reading what happened inside the first French-language run of our “Malaria: turning the tide”…
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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 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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The integrity layer: using assessment to scaffold peer learning at scale
Peer feedback is the engine of The Geneva Learning Foundation’s learning system. A new screening tool protects that engine, and its design answers three questions education specialists have been circling for decades: what peer assessment is for, how much verification a learning system can afford, and what a certificate can honestly claim. “Ok ok ok…
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Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: early learning from our insights pipeline
On 13 March 2026, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) made its first agentic AI hire (see Announcement). Ms. Claude Cardot (unrelated to Anthropic’s Claude, learn why) became a member of our team. TGLF Founder Reda Sadki is documenting his journey of learning to work with artificial intelligence. This article explores how Ms. Cardot is helping…
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Climate and health: 20 local solutions shared by health professionals at Teach to Reach
These 20 local solutions are drawn from Teach to Reach 11: Local action to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis on health. They are not a substitute for the report, but a way into it: concrete examples that show what health workers and communities are actually doing when floods, heat, disrupted transport, and shifting…
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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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