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Turning the tide: a new insights report demonstrates why health worker knowledge is critical to ending malaria
Geneva, 17 April 2026 – The Geneva Learning Foundation releases the first peer-generated evidence base from more than a thousand frontline health workers on what is working, what is failing, and what needs to change in the fight against malaria. The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) today releases Malaria: Turning the tide, the first peer-generated evidence base…
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Ten years of peer learning and action: The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Alumni, in their own words
“If she still has the will to learn, and there is support to help her, who are we to stop her?” Those words came from a traditional leader in Bauchi State, Nigeria. A man who had previously opposed girls returning to school after becoming mothers. He said them out loud, in a room full of…
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One hand reaching for another: the health and humanitarian workers building a global network from clinics, conflict zones, and community halls
On the evening of March 30, 2026, Dr. Saeda Nahid Sultana logged into a global network from Bangladesh as rain and thunderstorms battered her city. It was 7:35 p.m. local time. Her internet connection was unstable. She stayed anyway. Halfway around the world, in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, Tamrat Boro had joined the same…
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The road to transformative action on climate and health: what we can learn from the ATACH evaluation
The Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health is a voluntary coordination platform hosted by the World Health Organization, which provides its Secretariat. In early 2026, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates completed a formative evaluation of ATACH’s first year under its 2024 to 2028 strategy, assessing both what the alliance has achieved and where it…
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How do we measure the value of peer learning for malaria national programme staff?
The following is based on a presentation delivered by Reda Sadki, Executive Director of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) on 17 March 2025 at the headquarters of RBM Partnership to End Malaria in Geneva, Switzerland. The transcript has been edited for clarity. TGLF and RBM formed a partnership in November 2024. This is a brief…
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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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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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The future of hybrid engagement: accelerated action to tackle global threats
How can we use the new physics of digital connections to save lives? What is the future of hybrid engagement? The ultimate test of any digital architecture is whether it can deliver results in the real world. In the context of global health, the challenge is bridging the “know-do gap.” This is the chasm between…
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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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