What changed at Teach to Reach 16?
On 6 August 2026, at Teach to Reach 16, health workers from more than 50 countries joined the sixteenth edition of the world’s largest peer learning…
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Malaria: nobody turns the tide alone
In online learning, 95 people out of a 100 quit. A network of health workers from malaria-endemic countries spent one summer proving that this is a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Two false dichotomies: quality vs. quantity and peer vs. global expertise
The national EPI manager of the Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), just addressed the COVID-19 Peer Hub Teams…
Can the transformation of global health education for impact rely on input-based accreditation?
Burck Smith wrote in 2012 what remains one of the clearest summaries of how accreditation is based primarily on a higher education institution’s inputs rather than…
What does the changing nature of knowledge mean for global health?
Charlotte Mbuh and I will be welcoming Julie Jacobson, one of the founders of Bridges to Development, for our 15-minute Global Health Symposium about neglected needs…
Learning, leadership, and impact in the Digital Age: In dialogue with Karen Watkins
Listen in on the Foundation’s first invitation-only Clubhouse chat. Karen Watkins and I chatted about the Foundation’s unique approach to this triptych of learning, leadership, and…
Disseminating rapid learning about COVID-19 vaccine introduction
In July 2019, barely six months before the pandemic, we worked with alumni of The Geneva Learning Foundation’s immunization programme to build the Impact Accelerator in…
Solidarity across public health and medicine silos during a pandemic
We are launching a new Scholar programme about environmental threats to health, with an initial focus on radiation. (I mapped out what this might look like…
What if you build it and they do not come?
We understand the yearning to find a low-cost or no-cost way to spontaneously create a thriving community of practice in which participants engage intensively, volunteer undue…
Imagining a new kind of community of practice
Busy managers may enjoy connecting socially and exchanging informally with their peers. However, they are likely to find it difficult to justify time doing so. They…
The international trainer
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break. When the levee breaks, I’ll have no place to stay. – Led Zeppelin While the International Trainer…