peer learning
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What health workers learned by sharing experience of HPV vaccination efforts
In October 2025, a health worker named Waheed Ali Soomro arrived at a school in Hyderabad, Pakistan, to vaccinate girls against human papillomavirus, or “HPV”. The parents were already angry. Their daughters had been lined up without prior notice, and WhatsApp rumors about the vaccine causing infertility had reached the community before Soomro did. He…
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“Scholar one day, Scholar always”: Inside the last-mile global health network that runs on trust
This article is part of a series celebrating the tenth anniversary of The Geneva Learning Foundation. At 12:40 p.m. Kinshasa time on March 11, 2026, Simon Mukundi Badinenganyi logged into a Zoom call from Kananga, in the Kasaï Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He typed a greeting to the hosts, then…
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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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Investing in our shared future: learning, equity, and solidarity
For a decade, we have worked to transform how professionals learn, connect, and lead change. We have reached tens of thousands of participants in over 100 countries. If you have participated, you experienced the power of peer learning. When health and humanitarian workers support and learn from each other, they grow stronger. This speeds up…
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Rethinking human resources for malaria control and elimination in Africa
The comprehensive policy review by Halima Mwenesi and colleagues “Rethinking human resources and capacity building needs for malaria control and elimination in Africa” argues that the stagnation in global malaria progress is fundamentally a human resources crisis rather than solely a biological or technical failure. The authors posit that the current workforce is insufficient in…
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Evaluation of a capacity building intervention on malaria treatment for children
The study by Ayodele Jegede and colleagues “Evaluation of a capacity building intervention on malaria treatment for under-fives in rural health facilities in Niger State, Nigeria” provides a rigorous evaluation of a standard “cascade training” intervention. The intervention followed the classic global health model where national experts trained state trainers who then trained local government…
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5 reasons why our current systems of learning are broken – and how to fix them
Reda Sadki’s writing explores how systems of learning matter when tackling complex challenges across global health, humanitarian aid, and education. Over twelve years of articles on his blog, he has built a cohesive argument for why our current systems of learning are broken and how we might fix them. Since 2016, his work at The…
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Implementation science for planetary health
Remarks about implementation science for planetary health by Reda Sadki, Executive Director, The Geneva Learning Foundation at the Centre for Planetary Health’s research corner meeting, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on December 17, 2025. Pauline Paterson (LSHTM): We are really delighted to welcome Reda Sadki. Reda is the Executive Director of the…
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How can governments protect and promote mental health and well-being across sectors?
For decades, global health policy has approached mental illness primarily as a clinical challenge, a condition to be managed within the walls of hospitals and clinics by medical professionals. This biomedical focus, while essential, has often obscured the broader context in which mental health is shaped. A new publication from the World Health Organization, Guidance on…
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Subnational tailoring of malaria strategies and interventions: bridging the gap between planning and implementation
The global malaria response is currently navigating a convergence of crises. Epidemiologically, the reduction in mortality has plateaued. Biologically, threats from Anopheles stephensi and partial artemisinin resistance are accelerating. Financially, the 2025 landscape is defined by a severe contraction in foreign assistance, necessitating a radical optimization of resources. In this context, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new…
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