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The Geneva Learning Foundation runs Teach to Reach, a peer learning platform for people who work for health. Its shortest format is the launch event: one live hour in which health and humanitarian workers say what they need to learn and why, a partner organisation answers questions from the audience, and new courses open. On 14 May 2026, two days after International Nurses Day, the Foundation used that hour to open its first courses on ageing and menopause, the second built with a new international organisation working on menopause.
A consultant anaesthetist in Nigeria has spent years carrying one request from community level to state level to national level: put pneumonia vaccination for older adults into the national schedule. She names its case fatality, notes that her country buried two former heads of state after that disease, and says the schedule still does not include it. That takes three minutes. Nine other people follow with something equally specific.
What you are watching
Participants type their point into the chat, raise a hand, and answer one question at a time. Facilitators push back when an answer drifts into theory, and they ask instead for the words someone actually used with a patient. The featured partner takes a challenge from a viewer live, on air, without a script.
Who speaks
A consultant anaesthetist and Red Cross adviser in Nigeria, a nurse and midwife caring for migrant patients in South Africa, a civil society worker covering every state of Nigeria on gender-based violence, a behavioural health therapist with 25 years in elderly care, a physician in Catalonia speaking as both doctor and patient, and a community practitioner in the Nigerian private sector.
What happens
- The Foundation marks International Nurses Day by asking global health leaders to put nurses inside the rooms where policy gets decided, not in the audience.
- Scholars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo take over the screen. They organised their own celebration of ten years of work, in Kinshasa, on their own initiative, and the facilitators stop talking and let the photographs run.
- The partner explains why menopause belongs in primary health care, and one number does the work: over one billion women will be menopausal or post-menopausal by 2030. Weeks later the Foundation published what health workers already knew, in their own words.
- A viewer on LinkedIn interrupts the framing, arguing that menopause education has to start with the menstrual cycle and with young people. The partner answers her live.
- The Foundation announces its 2026 ambassadors: 190 alumni, 110 French speaking and 80 English speaking, after a four week activation.
Reasons to watch
- The partner reveals that demographic and health surveys in many countries stop at age 49, so the perimenopausal years never enter the data. If you write policy, your evidence base has a hole cut into it by design.
- A therapist describes older patients who cannot pay a bill, book an appointment or buy food once services move online, then names the shortage of places when dementia arrives. Anyone digitising a service should hear this before writing the specification.
- A nurse in South Africa explains how xenophobia decides who actually receives care. No coverage figure will ever show you that barrier.
- The facilitators spell out how someone becomes an ambassador, and it is not an application form. It is a record of showing up and bringing colleagues, which tells you exactly what earns the invitation.
- Ten courses go past in sequence, each with the problem it solves and the person it serves, so you can pick the one that matches what is stuck on your desk.
- The facilitators warn you not to take a peer learning course alone, and ask you to bring one colleague. That single instruction changes how well the next six months will go.
Resources and access
The Foundation covers the cost of participation, so these courses carry no fee. A small number of competency based certifications may cost something.
- Our shared challenge of ageing, a primer for health workers.
- Beyond the hot flash, a primer for health workers about menopause.
- Malaria: Turning the tide, learn from real world health worker experience.
- Equity matters, an introduction to Human Equity Action Reflection Transformation.
- Gender in emergencies, a rapid introduction.
- Mitigating gender-based violence in practice.
- Turning ideas about decolonizing global health into practice.
- Supporting people living with noncommunicable diseases in humanitarian settings.
- Measles outbreaks: prevention, response, and recovery.
- Women inspiring women.
Leave one comment naming the older patient whose problem you cannot solve at present. Share this with one colleague who still thinks menopause belongs to somebody else’s clinic.