New tools for malaria prevention and control are coming. Do you know what they are? Learn more and take the course: https://www.learning.foundation/courses/new-peer-learning-course-malaria-new-tools-to-turn-the-tide/
New vaccines, medicines, antibodies, nets, and tools that target mosquitoes are all here or close.
This new certification, from The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Malaria: Turning the tide programme, helps you make sense of each one, then think through what this will mean for your community.
If you see malaria in your clinic, your data, or your community, this course is for you.
You do not need a science degree to join. You need to know how malaria affects your community.
New vaccines, medicines, antibodies, nets, and tools that target mosquitoes are all here or close.
This new certification, from The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Malaria: Turning the tide programme, helps you make sense of each one, then think through what this will mean for your community.
If you see malaria in your clinic, your data, or your community, this course is for you.
You do not need a science degree to join. You need to know how malaria affects your community.
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A midwife in Senegal lost the roads pregnant women used to reach the health centre, so she found another way to stay reachable. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/02/what-did-we-learn-at-teach-to-reach-15/
More than 80,000 frontline health and humanitarian workers met on 2 July 2026 for Teach to Reach 15, the fifteenth edition of the world's largest peer learning event.
The Geneva Learning Foundation is publishing six new stories from Senegal, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, Uganda, and Saudi Arabia.
In Kolda, floods took the tracks pregnant women used to reach care, and antenatal appointments stopped.
In Nairobi, a health promotion coordinator counted a flood differently than a meteorologist, starting with more than 100 dead and following the losses that surfaced weeks later.
A nurse in Kasaï central named a sentence from a colleague that quietly undoes a national bed net campaign.
A physician gave a room a number, more than 17 doctors dead in the current Bun
More than 80,000 frontline health and humanitarian workers met on 2 July 2026 for Teach to Reach 15, the fifteenth edition of the world's largest peer learning event.
The Geneva Learning Foundation is publishing six new stories from Senegal, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, Uganda, and Saudi Arabia.
In Kolda, floods took the tracks pregnant women used to reach care, and antenatal appointments stopped.
In Nairobi, a health promotion coordinator counted a flood differently than a meteorologist, starting with more than 100 dead and following the losses that surfaced weeks later.
A nurse in Kasaï central named a sentence from a colleague that quietly undoes a national bed net campaign.
A physician gave a room a number, more than 17 doctors dead in the current Bun
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TGLF's Insights Unit just published a Rapid Gender Analysis of the Colombia earthquake. Read the full analysis: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/13/rapid-gender-analysis-colombia-earthquake-10-august-2026/
We could not find an official report on this earthquake that breaks down deaths, injuries, or missing people by sex or age.
That gap makes one question hard to answer.
Are search, shelter, and medical care reaching women and men equally.
In Chocó, traditional midwives are still attending births during the emergency.
Their director told a reporter they have no way to transport women to hospital when a birth turns into an emergency.
In Cali, part of a hospital collapsed, including its neonatal unit.
Staff moved newborns to the car park and improvised a nursery there.
Colombia already runs a free national hotline for gender-based violence, Línea 155.
We found it mentioned in non-government earthquake messaging, but not in the official updates we reviewed.
These are not new problems.
They are known risks with tested fixes: fund the midwives directly, post the hotline number everywhere aid is distributed, inspect shelters before people settle in.
The analysis lays out what we know, what we could not find, and what to do about both before the response hardens into place.
We could not find an official report on this earthquake that breaks down deaths, injuries, or missing people by sex or age.
That gap makes one question hard to answer.
Are search, shelter, and medical care reaching women and men equally.
In Chocó, traditional midwives are still attending births during the emergency.
Their director told a reporter they have no way to transport women to hospital when a birth turns into an emergency.
In Cali, part of a hospital collapsed, including its neonatal unit.
Staff moved newborns to the car park and improvised a nursery there.
Colombia already runs a free national hotline for gender-based violence, Línea 155.
We found it mentioned in non-government earthquake messaging, but not in the official updates we reviewed.
These are not new problems.
They are known risks with tested fixes: fund the midwives directly, post the hotline number everywhere aid is distributed, inspect shelters before people settle in.
The analysis lays out what we know, what we could not find, and what to do about both before the response hardens into place.
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The Geneva Learning Foundation just announced Joseph Wato as its first Fellow for the transformation of global health. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/07/08/joseph-wato-appointed-first-tglf-fellow-for-the-transformation-of-global-health/
"You go to Geneva. You sit in all these meetings. How does that help me?"
A mother asked Wato this directly in a village in Cameroon, looking him in the eye.
He did not deflect the question.
He has spent his entire career building the answer.
Wato holds, simultaneously, a board seat at two of the most consequential financing institutions in global health and the daily practice of working with the communities those institutions are meant to serve.
Between 2015 and 2017, he supervised community health workers in Cameroon under a malaria Global Fund grant.
He went into the field with them, and found families where a child was running a fever and there was no money for transport to a clinic ten kilometers away.
By 2020, he had joined the Develo
"You go to Geneva. You sit in all these meetings. How does that help me?"
A mother asked Wato this directly in a village in Cameroon, looking him in the eye.
He did not deflect the question.
He has spent his entire career building the answer.
Wato holds, simultaneously, a board seat at two of the most consequential financing institutions in global health and the daily practice of working with the communities those institutions are meant to serve.
Between 2015 and 2017, he supervised community health workers in Cameroon under a malaria Global Fund grant.
He went into the field with them, and found families where a child was running a fever and there was no money for transport to a clinic ten kilometers away.
By 2020, he had joined the Develo
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FGS RECOGNITION TRAINING INVITE 2026_aug_01_acc.pdf
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Dear FGS Scholars,
A free online training on Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) lesion recognition is now open for registration.
This training is not for everyone. Please read the requirements before you apply.
(Never heard of FGS? Start learning here: https://www.learning.foundation/fgs)
It is offered by Prof. Eyrun Kjetland and the BRIGHT Academy, with support from Oslo University Hospital and the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
The training is designed for gynaecologists, medical officers, nurses in cervical cancer screening programmes, and allied health professionals.
Recognising FGS lesions requires good eyes and an attentive mind — not advanced English.
For French-speaking colleagues, the practical exams and all four theory summary sessions (30 minutes each) are available in French.
This is a skill that most of us were never formally taught.
You see what you know how to look for.
This training changes that.
Register using the invitation shared in this community.
Confirm participation: brightresearch.cbthr@gmail.com
1) please attach your CV
2) WhatsApp number
3) kindly confirm by 17 August 2026
Price: free
A free online training on Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) lesion recognition is now open for registration.
This training is not for everyone. Please read the requirements before you apply.
(Never heard of FGS? Start learning here: https://www.learning.foundation/fgs)
It is offered by Prof. Eyrun Kjetland and the BRIGHT Academy, with support from Oslo University Hospital and the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
The training is designed for gynaecologists, medical officers, nurses in cervical cancer screening programmes, and allied health professionals.
Recognising FGS lesions requires good eyes and an attentive mind — not advanced English.
For French-speaking colleagues, the practical exams and all four theory summary sessions (30 minutes each) are available in French.
This is a skill that most of us were never formally taught.
You see what you know how to look for.
This training changes that.
Register using the invitation shared in this community.
Confirm participation: brightresearch.cbthr@gmail.com
1) please attach your CV
2) WhatsApp number
3) kindly confirm by 17 August 2026
Price: free
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Artificial intelligence for global health: there is a dangerous flaw in WHO's most discussed proposal. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/14/artificial-intelligence-for-global-health-a-tragedy-of-the-commons-brewing-in-genevas-basement/
The problem is arithmetic.
At 95% accuracy per step, a ten-step agentic workflow lands below 60% end to end.
Certifying the output does not fix that.
Reading the path does.
And reading the path requires exactly the grades WHO's restructuring plan cuts first: a projected 30% reduction in P1-to-P3 posts, the roles where people learn to distinguish a technically correct recommendation from one that is wrong for this district, this season, this population.
Reda Sadki, writing in direct response to Rifat Hossain's widely read "The Machine in Geneva's Basement," names what the certification argument misses: the savings from AI adoption are captured now, by the institutions that automate.
The cost arrives as a shortage of independent judgment somewhere between 2035 and 2045, long after anyone can be held responsible.
Nolan Lovett calls it the tragedy of the cognitive commons.
The Validation Tether is its sharpest edge: catching a plausible but wrong answer requires precisely the expertise that AI adoption erodes.
Sadki brings to this debate something most commentators do not have: direct operational evidence.
4,300 health workers in Nigeria produced more than 400 root-cause analyses in four weeks, at roughly 90% lower unit cost and seven times faster than conventional technical assistance, and more than half kept collaborating after the funding closed.
That is a proof of concept for the kind of institution that can reproduce its own capacity for judgment, at the district level, at scale, without Geneva's budget.
For anyone deciding where the next tranche of AI-for-health investment goes, Sadki's test is the one worth applying: not whether a system produces good outputs, but whether the people who will have to overrule it are still being made.
Learn more about The Geneva Learning Foundation's AI4Health certificate programme: https://www.learning.foundation/ai
The problem is arithmetic.
At 95% accuracy per step, a ten-step agentic workflow lands below 60% end to end.
Certifying the output does not fix that.
Reading the path does.
And reading the path requires exactly the grades WHO's restructuring plan cuts first: a projected 30% reduction in P1-to-P3 posts, the roles where people learn to distinguish a technically correct recommendation from one that is wrong for this district, this season, this population.
Reda Sadki, writing in direct response to Rifat Hossain's widely read "The Machine in Geneva's Basement," names what the certification argument misses: the savings from AI adoption are captured now, by the institutions that automate.
The cost arrives as a shortage of independent judgment somewhere between 2035 and 2045, long after anyone can be held responsible.
Nolan Lovett calls it the tragedy of the cognitive commons.
The Validation Tether is its sharpest edge: catching a plausible but wrong answer requires precisely the expertise that AI adoption erodes.
Sadki brings to this debate something most commentators do not have: direct operational evidence.
4,300 health workers in Nigeria produced more than 400 root-cause analyses in four weeks, at roughly 90% lower unit cost and seven times faster than conventional technical assistance, and more than half kept collaborating after the funding closed.
That is a proof of concept for the kind of institution that can reproduce its own capacity for judgment, at the district level, at scale, without Geneva's budget.
For anyone deciding where the next tranche of AI-for-health investment goes, Sadki's test is the one worth applying: not whether a system produces good outputs, but whether the people who will have to overrule it are still being made.
Learn more about The Geneva Learning Foundation's AI4Health certificate programme: https://www.learning.foundation/ai
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TGLF Fellow Panu Saaristo just published an argument for why local leadership is the missing key to humanitarian health. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/07/08/when-the-flood-comes-the-diabetes-does-not-leave-why-local-leadership-is-the-missing-key-to-humanitarian-health/
Somewhere in a flooded district this week, a woman is trying to work out where next week's insulin will come from.
She is not thinking about the humanitarian system.
She is thinking about whether she will still be here in a month.
Noncommunicable diseases already cause around three-quarters of deaths worldwide, and they do not pause for emergencies.
Hypertension does not resolve when floodwater enters the clinic, and diabetes does not remit when the supply chain collapses.
The medicines needed to treat acute NCD presentations for 10,000 people over three months cost approximately 2,000 dollars.
Adding chronic disease management brings the total to around 22,000 dollars.
Against the cost of one heart attack
Somewhere in a flooded district this week, a woman is trying to work out where next week's insulin will come from.
She is not thinking about the humanitarian system.
She is thinking about whether she will still be here in a month.
Noncommunicable diseases already cause around three-quarters of deaths worldwide, and they do not pause for emergencies.
Hypertension does not resolve when floodwater enters the clinic, and diabetes does not remit when the supply chain collapses.
The medicines needed to treat acute NCD presentations for 10,000 people over three months cost approximately 2,000 dollars.
Adding chronic disease management brings the total to around 22,000 dollars.
Against the cost of one heart attack
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A brand-new lab, PCR-equipped, funded by the World Bank. It could not detect the Bundibugyo strain spreading a few kilometers away.
On June 13, 2026, 55 Congolese Scholars from The Geneva Learning Foundation held an experience-sharing session on the Ebola response, Bundibugyo strain. No one ordered the meeting. They called it themselves.
Ten lessons came out of it: risk communication, operational security in conflict zones, equipping grieving families for burial rites instead of simply banning them.
Read the 10 lessons: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/06/15/bundibugyo-in-drc-10-lessons-from-experience-sharing-in-response-to-ebola/
Share your experience and get certified: https://go.learning.foundation/tglf/c/32222
On June 13, 2026, 55 Congolese Scholars from The Geneva Learning Foundation held an experience-sharing session on the Ebola response, Bundibugyo strain. No one ordered the meeting. They called it themselves.
Ten lessons came out of it: risk communication, operational security in conflict zones, equipping grieving families for burial rites instead of simply banning them.
Read the 10 lessons: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/06/15/bundibugyo-in-drc-10-lessons-from-experience-sharing-in-response-to-ebola/
Share your experience and get certified: https://go.learning.foundation/tglf/c/32222
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No child should die from malaria. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/10/no-child-should-die-from-malaria-thierno-abdoulaye-baldes-story/
A child arrived at a health facility in Guinea, sick enough that clinicians knew what he needed.
They wrote the prescription and told his parents to go buy it, because the facility had none.
He got worse before they returned. He died.
Thierno Abdoulaye Balde wrote that sentence in a peer learning course called Malaria: turning the tide.
A footnote says the child was his nephew.
258 health professionals wrote 1,534 accounts like it for The Geneva Learning Foundation's Teach to Reach network.
In 84 percent of those stories, the family had already tried a street seller, a private pharmacy, or a traditional healer before reaching a clinic.
Nearly half of the health workers who noticed this did something programmes rarely fund: they went and talked to the seller directly, face to face, in the back room after the rush.
One doctor in Niger put i
A child arrived at a health facility in Guinea, sick enough that clinicians knew what he needed.
They wrote the prescription and told his parents to go buy it, because the facility had none.
He got worse before they returned. He died.
Thierno Abdoulaye Balde wrote that sentence in a peer learning course called Malaria: turning the tide.
A footnote says the child was his nephew.
258 health professionals wrote 1,534 accounts like it for The Geneva Learning Foundation's Teach to Reach network.
In 84 percent of those stories, the family had already tried a street seller, a private pharmacy, or a traditional healer before reaching a clinic.
Nearly half of the health workers who noticed this did something programmes rarely fund: they went and talked to the seller directly, face to face, in the back room after the rush.
One doctor in Niger put i
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Teach to Reach 17: Share your experience, find new ways to solve your challenges. Request your invitation: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/17/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?
This monthly one-hour session hosted by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is built to answer that question.
In it, you will:
1️⃣ Name a challenge you are working on and leave knowing which of the Foundation's courses is built for it
2️⃣ Hear directly from peers who turned the same kind of problem into a working solution in their own context
3️⃣ Meet colleagues from dozens of countries, including alumni, Ambassadors, and first-time participants, and walk away with contacts you can message next week
4️⃣ Get clear answers on enrollment, time, certification, and what it actually takes to finish
Come with a challenge.
Leave with a course, a contact, and a next step you can take before the end of the month.
Open to all. Registration required.
You are stuck on a problem at work. A colleague in another country has already solved it. How can you connect?
This monthly one-hour session hosted by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is built to answer that question.
In it, you will:
1️⃣ Name a challenge you are working on and leave knowing which of the Foundation's courses is built for it
2️⃣ Hear directly from peers who turned the same kind of problem into a working solution in their own context
3️⃣ Meet colleagues from dozens of countries, including alumni, Ambassadors, and first-time participants, and walk away with contacts you can message next week
4️⃣ Get clear answers on enrollment, time, certification, and what it actually takes to finish
Come with a challenge.
Leave with a course, a contact, and a next step you can take before the end of the month.
Open to all. Registration required.
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The Geneva Learning Foundation just published 20 local solutions health professionals shared at Teach to Reach on climate and health. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/07/09/climate-and-health-20-local-solutions-shared-by-health-professionals-at-teach-to-reach/
In October 2024, flooding hit Mali's interior regions, including Bamako.
Dr Kassoum Barry describes how the population used makeshift boats, pinasses, and pirogues to reach health centres.
In Yaoundé, Cameroon, community health worker Ngontcha Basile approached the district chief and mayor to set up two spaces with secure roofs, protecting people from the sun and heat.
In Sindh Province, Pakistan, the District Health Officer arranged a tractor trolley on the 29th day, filled with essential medicines, to reach a rural health centre 15 kilometres away.
In Taraba State, Nigeria, community health worker Habila Christiana Habu organized mobile health clinics using boats borrowed from local fishermen.
These 20 examples are dra
In October 2024, flooding hit Mali's interior regions, including Bamako.
Dr Kassoum Barry describes how the population used makeshift boats, pinasses, and pirogues to reach health centres.
In Yaoundé, Cameroon, community health worker Ngontcha Basile approached the district chief and mayor to set up two spaces with secure roofs, protecting people from the sun and heat.
In Sindh Province, Pakistan, the District Health Officer arranged a tractor trolley on the 29th day, filled with essential medicines, to reach a rural health centre 15 kilometres away.
In Taraba State, Nigeria, community health worker Habila Christiana Habu organized mobile health clinics using boats borrowed from local fishermen.
These 20 examples are dra
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The Geneva Learning Foundation just marked three years since 4,700 health workers from 68 countries logged on to answer one question about climate change and health. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/07/28/climate-and-health-celebrating-three-years-of-local-action/
On 28 July 2023, a community pharmacist in Aja, Nigeria, sat alone in front of a screen.
So did a volunteer who had worked the same Kenyan village for eighteen years.
None of them could see the others.
Monica Agu, the pharmacist, did not describe climate change in the abstract.
She described her street: water everywhere, pools of it breeding mosquitoes, patients returning to her pharmacy within weeks because they had been bitten again.
Jeffrey Mutali had run rapid diagnostic tests in Milo B village for eighteen years.
"For the last five years or so, due to the climate change, it has really increased," he said, now testing fifteen to twenty malaria positives on a single day.
Four months later, at COP28, TGLF's Charl
On 28 July 2023, a community pharmacist in Aja, Nigeria, sat alone in front of a screen.
So did a volunteer who had worked the same Kenyan village for eighteen years.
None of them could see the others.
Monica Agu, the pharmacist, did not describe climate change in the abstract.
She described her street: water everywhere, pools of it breeding mosquitoes, patients returning to her pharmacy within weeks because they had been bitten again.
Jeffrey Mutali had run rapid diagnostic tests in Milo B village for eighteen years.
"For the last five years or so, due to the climate change, it has really increased," he said, now testing fifteen to twenty malaria positives on a single day.
Four months later, at COP28, TGLF's Charl
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A new climate-health framework runs seven times faster and costs 90 percent less than conventional training. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/19/why-you-should-try-the-new-7-30-climate-health-emergency-framework/
It is called 7-30, built from three years of structured listening to more than 80,000 health workers across 137 countries.
The framework runs on two numbers. Seven days to confirm a local area is prepared before a seasonal or forecast trigger. Thirty days to restore or adapt essential services after an event.
Every action in it traces to a documented practice: mapping the catchment area, pre-authorising adaptations, naming the most vulnerable, building relationships before the crisis hits.
In a Côte d’Ivoire implementation, 82 percent of participants kept using the method without further outside support.
Health workers are already the ones noticing the familiar disease arriving at the wrong time, place, or intensity. 7-30 turns that observation into an executable plan, validated through peer review among people who know the local constraints.
This matters now because the money has collapsed. Roughly 70 percent of global health funding contracted in January 2025, just as climate indicators hit record highs and WHO projects a shortfall of 10 million health workers by 2030.
The old model, flying in experts and cascading training down a hierarchy, cannot work at that scale on that budget.
The framework’s own limitations are published alongside it, including where the evidence is still a hypothesis and where health worker protection needs more attention.
Read what a technical officer, planner, or funder needs to know before the next extreme weather event.
It is called 7-30, built from three years of structured listening to more than 80,000 health workers across 137 countries.
The framework runs on two numbers. Seven days to confirm a local area is prepared before a seasonal or forecast trigger. Thirty days to restore or adapt essential services after an event.
Every action in it traces to a documented practice: mapping the catchment area, pre-authorising adaptations, naming the most vulnerable, building relationships before the crisis hits.
In a Côte d’Ivoire implementation, 82 percent of participants kept using the method without further outside support.
Health workers are already the ones noticing the familiar disease arriving at the wrong time, place, or intensity. 7-30 turns that observation into an executable plan, validated through peer review among people who know the local constraints.
This matters now because the money has collapsed. Roughly 70 percent of global health funding contracted in January 2025, just as climate indicators hit record highs and WHO projects a shortfall of 10 million health workers by 2030.
The old model, flying in experts and cascading training down a hierarchy, cannot work at that scale on that budget.
The framework’s own limitations are published alongside it, including where the evidence is still a hypothesis and where health worker protection needs more attention.
Read what a technical officer, planner, or funder needs to know before the next extreme weather event.
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On 28 July 2026, Ms. Cardot, The Geneva Learning Foundation's AI colleague, refused to release two finished reports. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/07/29/research-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-early-learning-from-our-insights-pipeline/
A verification script had compared every quotation against the raw course data and found seventeen it could not match.
The pipeline exited with an error.
No report ships while a gate is red.
The diagnosis took an hour and taught the team more than success would have.
Fourteen of the seventeen quotations were in fact verbatim, and the checker itself had gaps.
Three had genuinely been altered by the drafting model, which had tidied a stray space and smoothed a phrase.
The team fixed the gate, restored the three quotations to their exact original form, and only then let the reports ship, inside a replication bundle with a cryptographic hash for every file.
Version 4.0 of the pipeline, called tglf-report-writer, is now open source.
It r
A verification script had compared every quotation against the raw course data and found seventeen it could not match.
The pipeline exited with an error.
No report ships while a gate is red.
The diagnosis took an hour and taught the team more than success would have.
Fourteen of the seventeen quotations were in fact verbatim, and the checker itself had gaps.
Three had genuinely been altered by the drafting model, which had tidied a stray space and smoothed a phrase.
The team fixed the gate, restored the three quotations to their exact original form, and only then let the reports ship, inside a replication bundle with a cryptographic hash for every file.
Version 4.0 of the pipeline, called tglf-report-writer, is now open source.
It r
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A father in Côte d'Ivoire forbade his children the malaria medicine. They were exactly the age that medicine protects. Mahadou Bakouan asked why, and wrote down the answer. "These are rumours saying the medicines are not good for health." Read what he did next: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/20/whats-the-buzz-about-new-tools-for-malaria/
Acceptance surveys count how many people say yes.
They do not tell you whose yes it was.
Here it was one father, in one household, on one afternoon.
Health workers in more than twenty countries wrote up cases like his.
The largest group works in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What they did about it surprised me.
More of them persuaded one drug seller than ran an awareness session.
A seller in Guinea told Tamba Dissy Millimouno: "I do not want to lose my customers".
You may be surprised by what Millimouno did in response.
Acceptance surveys count how many people say yes.
They do not tell you whose yes it was.
Here it was one father, in one household, on one afternoon.
Health workers in more than twenty countries wrote up cases like his.
The largest group works in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What they did about it surprised me.
More of them persuaded one drug seller than ran an awareness session.
A seller in Guinea told Tamba Dissy Millimouno: "I do not want to lose my customers".
You may be surprised by what Millimouno did in response.
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Physician Benoît Beya gave the room a number, then went quiet. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/02/bundibugyo-in-the-voices-of-two-responders-and-the-fellow-who-framed-them/
More than 17 doctors have already died in the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak, and more nurses too.
At Teach to Reach 15, The Geneva Learning Foundation paused its climate and health programme for ten minutes to hear from two health workers already inside the response, one in the Democratic Republic of Congo and one in Uganda.
Saidu Ainebyoona, responding from the Ugandan side of the border, named three priorities: proper protective equipment, community engagement built on trust rather than instruction, and decisions that move as fast as the disease.
Panu Saaristo, the Foundation's first Fellow for Humanitarian Health, gave the framing that ties both accounts together.
An outbreak like this is a behavioural issue and a trust issue, he said, and a strictly medical approach misses why it keeps spreading
More than 17 doctors have already died in the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak, and more nurses too.
At Teach to Reach 15, The Geneva Learning Foundation paused its climate and health programme for ten minutes to hear from two health workers already inside the response, one in the Democratic Republic of Congo and one in Uganda.
Saidu Ainebyoona, responding from the Ugandan side of the border, named three priorities: proper protective equipment, community engagement built on trust rather than instruction, and decisions that move as fast as the disease.
Panu Saaristo, the Foundation's first Fellow for Humanitarian Health, gave the framing that ties both accounts together.
An outbreak like this is a behavioural issue and a trust issue, he said, and a strictly medical approach misses why it keeps spreading
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1 billion meetings a day. 30 years of research. The silence in global health convenings is manufactured by design, not culture. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/what-30-years-of-meeting-science-tells-global-health/
Thirty years of published research on meetings have now been reviewed in one place, and the evidence does not flatter how global health convenes.
The preparation finding is the most practical: meetings go better when participants have reviewed the agenda before they arrive.
A regional workshop where participants receive the agenda in the registration folder has already failed on this measure before anyone sits down.
The voice and inclusion findings go further.
Participation in meetings tracks hierarchy, and silence is produced rather than absent.
Betina Szkudlarek and Mats Alvesson identified three mechanisms that manufacture silence: hierarchy and rigid protocol make it the safer option, norms that prize consensus make dissent expensive, and beliefs about the fu
Thirty years of published research on meetings have now been reviewed in one place, and the evidence does not flatter how global health convenes.
The preparation finding is the most practical: meetings go better when participants have reviewed the agenda before they arrive.
A regional workshop where participants receive the agenda in the registration folder has already failed on this measure before anyone sits down.
The voice and inclusion findings go further.
Participation in meetings tracks hierarchy, and silence is produced rather than absent.
Betina Szkudlarek and Mats Alvesson identified three mechanisms that manufacture silence: hierarchy and rigid protocol make it the safer option, norms that prize consensus make dissent expensive, and beliefs about the fu
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The floods took the roads first, and in Kolda, Senegal, a project manager put phones in the middle so care could go on. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/02/climate-change-and-health-what-health-workers-are-already-doing-to-learn-adapt-and-change/
The tracks that pregnant women used to reach the health centre washed out, and the appointments stopped happening.
Malick Ndome gave midwives phones so they could advise women in labour they could not yet reach in person.
On 2 July 2026, leaders from over 60 countries joined Teach to Reach 15 for the launch of the first report to document what health workers are already doing about climate crises that harm health.
A physician in Kinshasa described malaria rates rising even in the dry season, as blocked drains create new mosquito breeding sites.
A health promotion coordinator in Nairobi described flooded schools, lost patient records, and clean water mixing with sewage.
None of these workers spoke about climate change in the future
The tracks that pregnant women used to reach the health centre washed out, and the appointments stopped happening.
Malick Ndome gave midwives phones so they could advise women in labour they could not yet reach in person.
On 2 July 2026, leaders from over 60 countries joined Teach to Reach 15 for the launch of the first report to document what health workers are already doing about climate crises that harm health.
A physician in Kinshasa described malaria rates rising even in the dry season, as blocked drains create new mosquito breeding sites.
A health promotion coordinator in Nairobi described flooded schools, lost patient records, and clean water mixing with sewage.
None of these workers spoke about climate change in the future
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"Don't confront a rumor directly. [...] Respond with action and correct information instead."
These words come from an experience-sharing session held by 55 Congolese Scholars from The Geneva Learning Foundation on June 13, 2026, on the Ebola response, Bundibugyo strain. Names and titles verified against the attendance record.
The most striking quotes, unfiltered: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/06/15/ebola-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-powerful-voices-from-the-bundibugyo-virus-response/
Join the certification: https://go.learning.foundation/tglf/c/32222
These words come from an experience-sharing session held by 55 Congolese Scholars from The Geneva Learning Foundation on June 13, 2026, on the Ebola response, Bundibugyo strain. Names and titles verified against the attendance record.
The most striking quotes, unfiltered: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/06/15/ebola-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-powerful-voices-from-the-bundibugyo-virus-response/
Join the certification: https://go.learning.foundation/tglf/c/32222
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