Reda Sadki
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Unlocking vaccines and pharmaceutical manufacturing potentials in Africa
This article is a summary of UNIDO’s October 2025 report, “Unlocking Vaccines and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Potentials in Africa: Guidelines for Effective Investment Promotion, Innovative Finance, and Regulatory Frameworks.” The core argument Africa produces less than 1% of its vaccines and a limited share of its essential medicines, despite carrying a disproportionate share of the global…
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AI self-replacement: what happens when we delegate our thoughts to artificial intelligence?
In my Day 1 article, I wrote that the OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 conference documented performance gains alongside learning losses, efficiency alongside declining human competence, and the emergence of what Dragan Gasevic called “metacognitive laziness.” I described a day that did not offer comfort. Where the first day established the tension between performance and…
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One hand reaching for another: the health and humanitarian workers building a global network from clinics, conflict zones, and community halls
On the evening of March 30, 2026, Dr. Saeda Nahid Sultana logged into a global network from Bangladesh as rain and thunderstorms battered her city. It was 7:35 p.m. local time. Her internet connection was unstable. She stayed anyway. Halfway around the world, in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, Tamrat Boro had joined the same…
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The road to transformative action on climate and health: what we can learn from the ATACH evaluation
The Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health is a voluntary coordination platform hosted by the World Health Organization, which provides its Secretariat. In early 2026, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates completed a formative evaluation of ATACH’s first year under its 2024 to 2028 strategy, assessing both what the alliance has achieved and where it…
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OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026: How can AI help human beings learn and grow?
On the first day of the OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 conference on “Exploring Effective Uses of Generative AI in Education,” we saw what happens when education system stakeholders ask not whether AI can improve performance, but whether it helps human beings learn and grow. The focus was K‑12, but the implications reach far beyond…
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You cannot therapize an occupation
A child born in Gaza in 2007 is now “six wars old.” That phrase, buried in an academic paper published this month in the International Review of Psychiatry, should stop you cold. It distills, in four words, what pages of clinical data struggle to convey: that for an entire generation, the interval between one catastrophe and the…
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How do we measure the value of peer learning for malaria national programme staff?
The following is based on a presentation delivered by Reda Sadki, Executive Director of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) on 17 March 2025 at the headquarters of RBM Partnership to End Malaria in Geneva, Switzerland. The transcript has been edited for clarity. TGLF and RBM formed a partnership in November 2024. This is a brief…
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What health workers learned by sharing experience of HPV vaccination efforts
In October 2025, a health worker named Waheed Ali Soomro arrived at a school in Hyderabad, Pakistan, to vaccinate girls against human papillomavirus, or “HPV”. The parents were already angry. Their daughters had been lined up without prior notice, and WhatsApp rumors about the vaccine causing infertility had reached the community before Soomro did. He…
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How to measure real-world outcomes in learning initiatives
This is the second of two articles about assessment, exploring how The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) measures real-world outcomes in learning initiatives. The first article examines the structural limitations of pre- and post-test designs, commonly used in global health and humanitarian response training, which cannot provide evidence of impact. The question behind the question When…
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What pre and post tests cannot tell you: A critical review of a widely-used but poorly-understood assessment method
This is the first of two articles about assessment, exploring the limitations and misuse of pre and post tests. The second article examines the framework used by The Geneva Learning Foundation to overcome the limitations described here. The reassuring illusion of the knowledge quiz Imagine a two-day workshop on menopause for healthcare providers. Before the…
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