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.
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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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The place the Bundibugyo virus spread fastest in one earlier outbreak was not the ward. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/06/04/teach-to-reach-14-replay-the-burial-site-spread-it-fastest-and-he-tells-the-next-district-what-to-do/
It was the burial.
A city council health worker in northern Uganda ran case management and surveillance through an earlier Ebola response, and he names that finding directly.
Then he speaks to colleagues in the districts fighting the current outbreak: we have fought this many times and beaten it, so you can beat it too.
In June 2026, the Geneva Learning Foundation set aside its planned programme as Bundibugyo virus disease spread across parts of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It gave the hour to health workers on both sides of the affected border.
By the end of that hour, a course co-created with scholars in both countries was open for registration.
One responder lists what actually stops an outbreak: disciplined infection prevention
It was the burial.
A city council health worker in northern Uganda ran case management and surveillance through an earlier Ebola response, and he names that finding directly.
Then he speaks to colleagues in the districts fighting the current outbreak: we have fought this many times and beaten it, so you can beat it too.
In June 2026, the Geneva Learning Foundation set aside its planned programme as Bundibugyo virus disease spread across parts of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It gave the hour to health workers on both sides of the affected border.
By the end of that hour, a course co-created with scholars in both countries was open for registration.
One responder lists what actually stops an outbreak: disciplined infection prevention
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Lillian Mutua did not describe a flood the way a meteorologist would. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/02/floods-the-first-responder-was-already-there/
She described a maternity ward with water on the floor and a filing cabinet of lost registers.
More than 100 people lost in Nairobi's central business district, sewage backed into clean water, patient medicines and appointment cards gone.
In Riyadh, Kaiser Parvez listed what a 50 degree afternoon does to the people who build the city in it: dehydration, sunstroke, the collapse of outdoor workers.
In Nepal, Deepanjali Shrestha has watched dengue move house, from the hills to the central region, a range shift stated in one sentence.
None of these are new diseases.
They are familiar problems arriving harder, earlier, and in places that used to be spared.
Ask where the early warning system for climate and health lives, and the honest answer is that it lives in the daily observations of health workers who are already treating th
She described a maternity ward with water on the floor and a filing cabinet of lost registers.
More than 100 people lost in Nairobi's central business district, sewage backed into clean water, patient medicines and appointment cards gone.
In Riyadh, Kaiser Parvez listed what a 50 degree afternoon does to the people who build the city in it: dehydration, sunstroke, the collapse of outdoor workers.
In Nepal, Deepanjali Shrestha has watched dengue move house, from the hills to the central region, a range shift stated in one sentence.
None of these are new diseases.
They are familiar problems arriving harder, earlier, and in places that used to be spared.
Ask where the early warning system for climate and health lives, and the honest answer is that it lives in the daily observations of health workers who are already treating th
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At Teach to Reach 15, The Geneva Learning Foundation read back three years of collective learning about climate and health to the people who had produced it. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/02/i-always-face-a-flood-health-workers-on-climate-change-in-their-own-words/
Lillian Mutua, who coordinates health promotion for Nairobi City County, did not reach for the word climate before she reached for the count.
More than 100 people lost in the central business district, houses swept away, schools flooded, patient registers destroyed.
In Riyadh, Kaiser Parvez treats what a 50 degree afternoon does to a body, and he had already stopped waiting.
He planted trees from his own pocket, with his nurses and doctors, to cool the environment.
In Kolda, Senegal, Malick Ndome watched floods destroy the tracks that women used to reach the health centre, and gave midwives phones to advise women in labour they could not yet reach.
When asked what surprised her, Tina Iroghama Agbonyinma refuse
Lillian Mutua, who coordinates health promotion for Nairobi City County, did not reach for the word climate before she reached for the count.
More than 100 people lost in the central business district, houses swept away, schools flooded, patient registers destroyed.
In Riyadh, Kaiser Parvez treats what a 50 degree afternoon does to a body, and he had already stopped waiting.
He planted trees from his own pocket, with his nurses and doctors, to cool the environment.
In Kolda, Senegal, Malick Ndome watched floods destroy the tracks that women used to reach the health centre, and gave midwives phones to advise women in labour they could not yet reach.
When asked what surprised her, Tina Iroghama Agbonyinma refuse
TGLF's Insights Unit just published a Rapid Gender Analysis of the Fako floods and landslide in South-West Cameroon. Read the full analysis: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/25/rapid-gender-analysis-floods-and-landslide-fako-division-south-west-cameroon-august-2026/
A pregnant woman and two other women died in the Limbe landslide on 5 August.
She lost her unborn child. The one man in the house survived.
The response to their deaths has no obstetric referral pathway yet.
It has no menstrual hygiene objective either, even though it funds 1,484 dignity kits for women and girls.
A comparable flood hit Buea, in the same division, three years ago.
There, destroyed latrines forced women to ask neighbours for access at night, and broken pipes made menstrual hygiene management a stated problem.
The current response has not named the facility that would receive a pregnant woman or a survivor of violence from the affected neighbourhoods.
Its referral system is still being built, and distribution has already started.
The committee running the response includes the Prefect, the town hall, and territorial administration.
No women's organisation sits on it.
These are not new problems. Buea recorded them in 2023, with tested fixes: a named hospital and midwife, dignity kits with a lock and a whistle, referral pathways that reach the people who need them.
The analysis lays out what this response has funded, what it has not yet built, and what to fix before the next distribution.
A pregnant woman and two other women died in the Limbe landslide on 5 August.
She lost her unborn child. The one man in the house survived.
The response to their deaths has no obstetric referral pathway yet.
It has no menstrual hygiene objective either, even though it funds 1,484 dignity kits for women and girls.
A comparable flood hit Buea, in the same division, three years ago.
There, destroyed latrines forced women to ask neighbours for access at night, and broken pipes made menstrual hygiene management a stated problem.
The current response has not named the facility that would receive a pregnant woman or a survivor of violence from the affected neighbourhoods.
Its referral system is still being built, and distribution has already started.
The committee running the response includes the Prefect, the town hall, and territorial administration.
No women's organisation sits on it.
These are not new problems. Buea recorded them in 2023, with tested fixes: a named hospital and midwife, dignity kits with a lock and a whistle, referral pathways that reach the people who need them.
The analysis lays out what this response has funded, what it has not yet built, and what to fix before the next distribution.
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In 12 weeks, a group of health leaders invented a new way to fight malaria. Read the full story: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/26/malaria-nobody-turns-the-tide-alone/
Their invention was not a drug or a device. It was each other.
Nurses, district physicians, nutritionists, and community facilitators across 16 countries built a community of practice that stayed with every colleague they recruited until that colleague moved from learning to action.
Malaria programmes already have partners, guidelines, and funding. What this network added was peer leadership: health workers holding each other accountable, Wednesday after Wednesday, for twelve weeks straight.
In online learning, five percent completion is the norm, TGLF founder Reda Sadki told them in July.
Anything higher comes from the support learners get along the way.
The proof sits in the numbers. A parallel course with no such peer network enrolled a third as many learners.
The community did not stay easy. Ambassadors argued in the open about how much to push a struggling colleague, and about whether their own reported numbers were honest.
They kept meeting anyway, and the network held.
On 25 August, letters went out recommending each of them to their employers and partners, a public record of what they built together.
Read what a health workforce can do when no one is left to face malaria alone.
Their invention was not a drug or a device. It was each other.
Nurses, district physicians, nutritionists, and community facilitators across 16 countries built a community of practice that stayed with every colleague they recruited until that colleague moved from learning to action.
Malaria programmes already have partners, guidelines, and funding. What this network added was peer leadership: health workers holding each other accountable, Wednesday after Wednesday, for twelve weeks straight.
In online learning, five percent completion is the norm, TGLF founder Reda Sadki told them in July.
Anything higher comes from the support learners get along the way.
The proof sits in the numbers. A parallel course with no such peer network enrolled a third as many learners.
The community did not stay easy. Ambassadors argued in the open about how much to push a struggling colleague, and about whether their own reported numbers were honest.
They kept meeting anyway, and the network held.
On 25 August, letters went out recommending each of them to their employers and partners, a public record of what they built together.
Read what a health workforce can do when no one is left to face malaria alone.
In Kasai central, DRC, malaria falls in the dry season, exactly as the programme expects. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/02/malaria-when-climate-keeps-rewriting-the-seasons/
A thousand kilometres away in Kinshasa, physician Noelly Zola says the anopheles never left this dry season, and the malaria rate keeps rising anyway.
Two DRC health workers, describing the same disease, watching it stop following the rules a whole control programme was built around.
A worker in Niger has already run a five year study on climate and malaria incidence. A worker in Lubumbashi runs flood studies with malaria and cholera patients, and says plainly that he needs partners.
In Katanga province, Séverin Yangama named the assumption inside the standard vector-control kit.
Bed nets are designed for a bed, and a large part of the population sleeps without one, because they have no bed at all.
A vector-control programme that measures success by net distribution has embedded a household environmen
A thousand kilometres away in Kinshasa, physician Noelly Zola says the anopheles never left this dry season, and the malaria rate keeps rising anyway.
Two DRC health workers, describing the same disease, watching it stop following the rules a whole control programme was built around.
A worker in Niger has already run a five year study on climate and malaria incidence. A worker in Lubumbashi runs flood studies with malaria and cholera patients, and says plainly that he needs partners.
In Katanga province, Séverin Yangama named the assumption inside the standard vector-control kit.
Bed nets are designed for a bed, and a large part of the population sleeps without one, because they have no bed at all.
A vector-control programme that measures success by net distribution has embedded a household environmen