From diagnosis to duty: health workers confront their own role in inequity
A thirteen-year-old girl in Nigeria, bitten by a snake, arrived at a hospital with her frantic family. The hospital demanded payment before administering the antivenom. The…
Category: Global health
The practitioner as catalyst: How a global learning community is turning frontline experience into action on health inequity
“In this phase of my life, I want to work directly with the communities to see what I can do,” said Dr. Sambo Godwin Ishaku, a…
From Murang’a to the world: remembering Joseph Ngugi, champion of peer learning for community health
“What keeps me going now is the excitement of the clients who receive the service and the sad faces of those clients who need the services…
Climate change and health: a new peer learning programme by and for health workers from the most climate-vulnerable countries
GENEVA, Switzerland, 23 July 2025 (The Geneva Learning Foundation) –Today, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) announces the launch of “Learning to lead change on the frontline…
WHO Global Conference on Climate and Health: New pathways to overcome structural barriers blocking effective climate and health action
After the World Health Assembly’s adoption of ambitious global plan of action for climate and health, global and country stakeholders are meeting in Brasilia for the…
Nigeria Immunization Agenda 2030 Collaborative: Piloting a national peer learning programme
Insights report about Nigeria’s Immunization Agenda 2030 Collaborative surfaces surprising solutions for both demand- and supply-side immunization challenges When 4,434 practitioners from all 36 states asked…
What is The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Impact Accelerator?
Imagine a social worker in Ukraine supporting children affected by the humanitarian crisis. Thousands of kilometers away, a radiation specialist in Japan is trying to find…
PFA Accelerator: across Europe, practitioners learn from each other to strengthen support to children affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
In the PFA Accelerator, practitioners supporting children are teaching each other what works. Every Friday, more than 240 education, social work, and health professionals across Ukraine…
Why peer learning is critical to survive the Age of Artificial Intelligence
María, a pediatrician in Argentina, works with an AI diagnostic system that can identify rare diseases, suggest treatment protocols, and draft reports in perfect medical Spanish.…
What does AI reasoning mean for global health?
When epidemiologists investigate a disease outbreak, they do not just match symptoms to known pathogens. They work through complex chains of evidence, test hypotheses, reconsider assumptions…