No child should die from malaria: Thierno Abdoulaye Baldé’s story
The Geneva Learning Foundation runs peer learning for the people who deliver health care where it is hardest to deliver. Its courses ask participants not for…
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Teach to Reach 17: Share your experience, find new ways to solve your challenges
You are stuck on a problem at work. A colleague in another country has already solved it. How can you connect? Request your invitation to join…
Teach to Reach 16 Replay: Defying distance to learn and lead change, from menopause to malaria
258 health workers. 1,534 real stories. One question: how do we turn the tide against malaria? In Teach to Reach 16, the Geneva Learning Foundation gives…
The Geneva Learning Foundation Scholar Newsletter, issue 6 (6 August 2026)
Dear Scholar, On Thursday 6 August 2026, health professionals will gather for Teach to Reach 16 (what is this?). Leaders from TGLF’s Malaria: Turning the Tide programme…
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“Everybody in a fun environment knows more of each other.” We interact at a human – not only utilitarian – level to form social spaces in…
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“I knew them very well. That’s why it worked. Because we do work together.” We take responsibility for our own learning, yet keenly aware of the…
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“[…] you learn that you are not alone in dealing with a technical problem and sometimes you just need a second technical opinion. Sometimes, it does…
Against insularity
“We came to understand because we have very good global connections.” How do we connect with other people, with other member organizations in the network, and…
What is a connector?
Where some believe that the value of their network is based on its exclusivity, connectors are people in the organization who have developed large networks of people…
What does it mean to broker knowledge in a network?
Our network function requires that we interact with the network. We observe profound changes in the nature of knowledge, how it circulates, and this affects how…
How do we learn from the network?
When our organization’s hierarchy prohibits direct contact with the field, indirect and informal contact becomes more important than ever. Global and regional meetings, bilateral programmes, and…
Death of the knowledge bank
The complexity of the networks in which our organization operates is scaffolded by a corpus of mostly-unwritten, tacit knowledge and ‘ways of working’ that we learn mostly…
Decentralization done wrong
Leave the global functions to headquarters, and shift responsibility for the field to those who are actually there (or close by). It sounds perfectly sensible. And,…