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The Africa Malaria Progress Reports: Chronicling eight years of progress toward malaria elimination

“We are the ones who are there every day”: How a global network of health workers is closing the last-mile gap

Investing in our shared future: learning, equity, and solidarity

Artificial intelligence, real racism: why the code can’t fix ‘poverty porn’

Comparative analysis of workforce development models in the global malaria elimination agenda

Rethinking human resources for malaria control and elimination in Africa

Evaluation of a capacity building intervention on malaria treatment for children

Book review: A handbook of learning for transformation

5 surprising insights from the science of successful learning

5 reasons why our current systems of learning are broken – and how to fix them

Retention and completion in online learning: recommended strategies for improvement

The future of hybrid engagement: accelerated action to tackle global threats

What we are learning about diversity in gender and emergencies work

Digital propinquity: how to engineer serendipity and build connection in remote teams

Trust in remote work: what is the psychology of social presence?

Reimagining Rapid Gender Analysis as decolonial practice

A decolonial feminist perspective on gender equality programming in the Global South

Implementation science for planetary health

How can governments protect and promote mental health and well-being across sectors?

Subnational tailoring of malaria strategies and interventions: bridging the gap between planning and implementation

Retrouver les enfants congolais non-vaccinés: des acteurs de tout le pays lancent le premier Accélérateur zéro-dose pour renforcer la mise en oeuvre et le suivi

Beyond outputs, a scalable model for documenting child MHPSS outcomes in a crisis: remarks by Reda Sadki at the 18th European Public Health Conference

The future of work: remarks at the 9th 1M1B Impact Summit held at the United Nations in Geneva

Development is adaptation: Bill Gates’s shift is actually about linking climate change and health

How the Lancet Countdown illuminates a new path to climate-resilient health systems

Climate change and health: what the Lancet Countdown says about the value and significance of local knowledge and action

How do we stop AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images?

What the 2025 State of AI Report means for global health and humanitarian action

The great unlearning: notes on the Empower Learners for the Age of AI conference

Pour retrouver les enfants congolais non vaccinés, il est question des fumoirs à poisson et du dialogue inter-religieux

En République démocratique du Congo, la traque des enfants « zéro dose » passe par l’intelligence collective des acteurs de la santé

Colonization, climate change, and indigenous health: from Algiers to Acre

Gender in emergencies: a new peer learning programme from The Geneva Learning Foundation

The crisis in scientific publishing: from AI fraud to epistemic justice

Against chocolate-covered broccoli: text-based alternatives to expensive multimedia content

Richard Mayer’s research on multimedia for learning actually proves text works better

How practitioners in Ukraine and across Europe built a self-sustaining peer learning network to support children

From diagnosis to duty: health workers confront their own role in inequity

The practitioner as catalyst: How a global learning community is turning frontline experience into action on health inequity

From Murang’a to the world: remembering Joseph Ngugi, champion of peer learning for community health

Climate change and health: a new peer learning programme by and for health workers from the most climate-vulnerable countries

WHO Global Conference on Climate and Health: New pathways to overcome structural barriers blocking effective climate and health action

Nigeria Immunization Agenda 2030 Collaborative: Piloting a national peer learning programme

What is The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Impact Accelerator?

PFA Accelerator: across Europe, practitioners learn from each other to strengthen support to children affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

Eric Schmidt’s San Francisco Consensus about the impact of artificial intelligence

Why peer learning is critical to survive the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Language as AI’s universal interface: What it means and why it matters

What does AI reasoning mean for global health?

The agentic AI revolution: what does it mean for workforce development?

The great technical assistance disruption: How peer networks outperform experts at a fraction of the cost

The funding crisis solution hiding in plain sight

When funding shrinks, impact must grow: the economic case for peer learning networks

The business of artificial intelligence and the equity challenge

Global health: learning to do more with less

Patterns of prejudice: Connecting the dots helps health workers combat bias worldwide

L’équité compte: quand les soignants du monde entier témoignent des inégalités en santé

Why YouTube is obsolete: From linear video content consumption to AI-mediated multimodal knowledge production

Chilling effect

Online learning completion rates in context: Rethinking success in digital learning networks

What is complex learning?

What is networked learning?

What is a complex problem?

Artificial intelligence, accountability, and authenticity: knowledge production and power in global health crisis

Peer learning for Psychological First Aid: New ways to strengthen support for Ukrainian children

AI podcast explores surprising insights from health workers about HPV vaccination

HPV vaccination: New learning and leadership to bridge the gap between planning and implementation

A global health framework for Artificial Intelligence as co-worker to support networked learning and local action

Supporting Ukrainian children: New peer learning platform to rapidly expand and scale the network of practitioners across Europe

Learning TikTok

Peer learning in immunization programmes

A generative AI podcast dialogue exploring The Geneva Learning Foundation’s progress in 2024

The cost of inaction: Quantifying the impact of climate change on health

Knowing-in-action: Bridging the theory-practice divide in global health

Why guidelines fail: on consequences of the false dichotomy between global and local knowledge in health systems

Ahead of Teach to Reach 11, health leaders from 45 countries share malaria experiences in REACH network session

You are not alone: Health workers are sharing how they protected their communities when extreme weather hit

Why answer Teach to Reach Questions?

Health at COP29: Workforce crisis meets climate crisis

Global Health Otherwise interviews Reda Sadki

How can we reliably spread evidence-based practices at the speed and scale modern health challenges demand?

Critical evidence gaps in the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

Strengthening primary health care in a changing climate

Anecdote or lived experience: reimagining knowledge for climate-resilient health systems

Teach to Reach’s new leadership network connects health organizations tackling common challenges

Making connections: Ghana’s Alumni of The Geneva Learning Foundation meet in Accra

What is the pedagogy of Teach to Reach?

Experiences shared at Teach to Reach 10

Ahead of Teach to Reach 11, organizational leaders share experience of ‘what works’ for health

World Health Summit: to rebuild trust in global health, invest in health workers as community leaders

Support of children affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine: Bridging practice and learning through the sharing of experience

Why become a Teach to Reach Partner?

Can Teach to Reach help your organization?

Why participate in Teach to Reach?

Brevity’s burden: The executive summary trap in global health

Recommendations to support knowledge translation of evidence to identify and reach zero-dose children

Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub’s innovative model for inter-country peer learning and knowledge translation

The Nigeria Immunization Collaborative: Early learning from a novel sector-wide approach model for zero-dose challenges

7 take-aways from Nigeria’s first Immunization Collaborative peer learning exercise

Experience-sharing sessions in the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030: A novel approach to localize global health collaboration

What is norms-shifting in immunization and global health?

Taking the pulse: why and how we change everything in response to learner signals

Integrating community-based monitoring (CBM) into a comprehensive learning-to-action model

Why asking learners what they want is a recipe for confusion

Learn health, but beware of the behaviorist trap

Why health leaders who are critical thinkers choose rote learning for others

Self-regulated learning: 8 things we know about learning across the lifespan in a complex world

Klepac and colleagues‘ scoping review of climate change, malaria and neglected tropical diseases: what about the epistemic significance of health worker knowledge?

How will we turn a climate change and health resolution at the World Health Assembly into local action?

50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Climate change and health: Health workers on climate, community, and the urgent need for action

International Nurses Day: Climate change and health

Journée internationale des infirmières: Changement climatique et santé

Semaine mondiale de la vaccination: Que voyez-vous?

Journée mondiale contre le paludisme: nous avons besoin de nouvelles façons de mener le changement

World Malaria Day 2024: We need new ways to support health workers leading change with local communities

World Immunization Week: What do you see?

Climate change and health: perspectives from developing countries

Making the invisible visible: storytelling the health impacts of climate change

Five examples of double-loop learning in global health

Learning culture: the missing link in global health between learning and performance

What is double-loop learning in global health?

Do Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) actually help global health?

Visual storytelling for health

Mental health and psychosocial support in Ukraine: insights from an interdisciplinary review

Women’s voices from the frontlines of health and humanitarian action

Voix de femmes en première ligne de la santé et de l’action humanitaire

Learning about mental health and psychosocial needs in Ukraine and affected countries

Why lack of continuous learning is the Achilles heel of immunization

What is the relationship between leadership and performance?

How to overcome limitations of expert-led fellowships for global health

How does the scalability of peer learning compare to expert-led coaching ‘fellowships’?

Become a Teach to Reach 10 Partner: Help amplify frontline voices at the world’s largest health peer learning event

Calculating the relative effectiveness of expert coaching, peer learning, and cascade training

Why does cascade training fail?

The capability trap: Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened

Gender analysis of the World Health Organization online learning program on Immunization Agenda 2030

Towards reimagined technical assistance: thinking beyond the current policy options

Protect, invest, together: strengthening health workforce through new learning models

The imperative for climate action to protect health and the role of education

Prioritizing the health and care workforce shortage: protect, invest, together

Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030): grounding action in local realities to reach the unreached

Widening inequities: Immunization Agenda 2030 remains “off-track”

Making sense of sensemaking

Education as a system of systems: rethinking learning theory to tackle complex threats to our societies

The design of intelligent environments for education

Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030): National EPI leaders from 31 countries share experience of HPV vaccination

Climate change is a threat to the health of the communities we serve: health workers speak out at COP28

Investing in the health workforce is vital to tackle climate change: A new report shares insights from over 1,200 on the frontline

Ten eyewitness reports from the frontline of climate change and health

Before, during, and after COP28: Climate crisis and health, through the eyes of health workers from Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Learning-based complex work: how to reframe learning and development

What learning science underpins peer learning for Global Health?

What did we learn from the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) in its first two years?

How do we reframe health performance management within complex adaptive systems?

The COVID-19 Peer Hub as an example of Collective Intelligence (CI) in practice

Teach to Reach: peer learning at scale

Honoring health professionals as leaders of change

Learning from Frontline Health Workers in the Climate Change Era

What does immunization have to do with climate change?

Digital bridges cannot cross analog gates

Why an open-source manifesto for global health?

Pourquoi un manifeste open-source pour la santé globale?

Metaphors of global health: jazz improvisation ensemble or classical orchestra?

Rising together: promoting inclusivity and collaboration in global health

Credible knowers

What works in practice to build vaccine confidence?

Heidi Larson: “So much remains determined by the capacity of people on the frontlines to explain, advocate, and respond in ways that are almost entirely dictated by context”

What is a “rubric” and why use rubrics in global health education?

Pandemic preparedness through connected transnational digital networks of local actors

Reinventing the path from knowledge to action in global health

Which is better for global health: online, blended, or face-to-face learning?

How we make sense of complexity, together, at the Geneva Learning Foundation

How does the Geneva Learning Foundation’s approach break the norm?

The Geneva Learning Foundation: Localizing programming and grounding policy

The Geneva Learning Foundation: Scale, reach, and sustainability

The Geneva Learning Foundation: Spanning the full spectrum of learning

Motivation and connection for transformation at the heart of the Geneva Learning Foundation’s approach

How local practitioners use the Geneva Learning Foundation’s approach to accelerate progress to impact

How the Geneva Learning Foundation uses learning science to drive change

What is the Geneva Learning Foundation and what do we do?

Digital challenge-based learning in the COVID-19 Peer Hub

What is the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030)?

Learning for Knowledge Creation: The WHO Scholar Program

Defunking Grunter

General Assembly of the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 on 14 March 2022

How do we shift our capacity to embrace a volatile, complex world?

The Shadow on the Rowan

Listen to the Ninth Dialogue for Learning, Leadership, and Impact

Listen to the Eighth Dialogue for Learning and Leadership

How we work

Listen to the seventh TGLF Dialogue on learning, leadership, and impact

Listen to the sixth TGLF Dialogue on learning, leadership, and impact

Listen to the fifth TGLF Dialogue on learning, leadership, and impact

Renaissance

Listen to the fourth TGLF Dialogue on learning, leadership, and impact

Listening for leadership

A round table for Immunization Agenda 2030: The leap from “bottom-up” consultation to multidimensional dialogue

What is the value of strategy in the middle of a global crisis?

Accountability in learning

Now is not everything

On learning, leadership, and impact: a new kind of dialogue to tackle the challenges that threaten our societies

What lies beyond the event horizon of the ‘webinar’?

Two false dichotomies: quality vs. quantity and peer vs. global expertise

Can the transformation of global health education for impact rely on input-based accreditation?

What does the changing nature of knowledge mean for global health?

Learning, leadership, and impact in the Digital Age: In dialogue with Karen Watkins

Disseminating rapid learning about COVID-19 vaccine introduction

Solidarity across public health and medicine silos during a pandemic

What if you build it and they do not come?

Imagining a new kind of community of practice

The international trainer

COVID-19 Peer Hub combats vaccine avoidance amid pandemic

Ideas Engine: What is The Geneva Learning Foundation’s insights mechanism?

Don’t cancel or postpone your conference, workshop, or training – go digital

Pros and cons of online courses

Ashes to ashes

The significance of digital platforms to the business

When learning meets emergency: The Geneva Learning Foundation’s approach to crisis response

Think and do

From ivory tower to walled garden

Digital health: The Geneva Learning Foundation to bring AI-driven training to health workers in 90 countries

Rethinking the “Webinar”: Sage on Screen, Guide on Side, or Both?

Subject matter experts as a learning problem

Magic

Humanitarian Leadership Academy merges with Save the Children UK

The next big thing in learning

Missed opportunities (2): How one selfish learner can undermine peer learning

Missed opportunities (1): making a dent requires rethinking how we construct medical education

Why learning professionals should strive to be leaders, not just service providers

Hot fudge sundae

Why gamification is a disaster for humanitarian learning

How do we measure the impact of informal and incidental learning on organizational performance?

The future of learning that could have been

Debunking the “Social Age”, a dead end for humanitarian leadership practitioners

What is the difference between a wicked problem and a grand challenge?

Zapnito advisor insight: Reda Sadki’s story

Implementation of guidelines, officially

I want them to read it

From guidelines to impact

New learning for radiation emergency medical preparedness and assistance

#DigitalScholar Reboot Day 1

4 rules for the digital transformation of partnerships

New learning and leadership for front-line community health workers facing danger

#Ambulance! Partnering with ICRC’s Health Care in Danger to scale peer learning for frontline pre-hospital emergency care staff and volunteers

Learning technologists are obsolete

Remote partnership brokering in the Digital Age

Mission accomplished

Relishing change

#DigitalScholar Apprenticeship

Meeting of the minds

Towers of technology

Tower of Babel

Insomnia against the grain – and putting Bloom to bed

Beyond MOOCs: the democratization of digital learning

On the future of leadership

Inventing by investing in new business models for humanitarian training

How close to the village can a global, digital education initiative get?

Learning in emergency operations: a pilot course to learn how we learn

Online learning around Ebola so far

Why learning is key to the strategic shift in how the world manages health crises

Lessons learned from Ebola

Skunk Works: 14 rules to live and die by

The idea of a university (updated)

MOOCs for teachers, then and now

Education Moonshot Summit

Choose your own adventure

Can analysis and critical thinking be taught online in the humanitarian context?

Experience and blended learning: two heads of the humanitarian training chimera

The Design of a Learning System to Teach Analysis and Critical Thinking for Humanitarians

Blame it on Plato

Publishing as learning

Why we secretly hate webinars

Why supposedly boring conference calls are actually amazing

How do we use technology to embed learning into work?

Skepticism about learning innovation

We need learning processes, not just tools

Wishful thinking cannot fix broken tools

Life-work balance

Party time

Learning is in the network

Connecting to the environment

Against insularity

What is a connector?

What does it mean to broker knowledge in a network?

How do we learn from the network?

Death of the knowledge bank

Decentralization done wrong

The hub in a network

Mind the gap

Being mentored

Onboarding

Mentoring

Encourage collaboration and team learning

I have no idea

Teaching and learning in The Walking Dead (S05E14)

Patterns and trends

Dialogue and inquiry

E-mail is formal learning

Eureka

Accidents happen

Learning habits

How do we solve problems in work?

The value of learning embedded in work

Should we trust our intuition and instinct when we learn?

Wishful thinking

3 critical questions for the new Humanitarian Leadership Academy

Workshop culture

Emergencies kill learning habits

Applicability

Formal learning of the past

Faster

Trust

Focus

Currency

Anchoring

Dinosaur

One size does not fit all

Nothing that we do can be taught

7 actions imperatives of learning strategy

12 questions that learning strategy seeks to answer

7 key questions when designing a learning system

Bring on 2015!

Make a wish

What is a wicked problem?

Soufrière

Bite-sized update: higher education in fragile contexts, discovery without analytics, and the epistemology of learning culture

Tech Change

Practice practice practice

Making humanitarians

Online learning 101: Costs vs. efficacy

Online learning 101: Approaches

Online learning 101: learning objectives and mind map

Online learning 101: Criteria to distinguish approaches

Online learning 101 for humanitarian managers and decision makers

Thick knowledge

Unified Knowledge Universe

Seven months

Elements of a learning dashboard

Webcasts, then and now

Games for health: 14 trick questions for Ben Sawyer

Dialectics

Practicum

Mission performance

Vanishing point

Convergence and cross-fertilisation between publishing and learning: an interview with Toby Green and Reda Sadki

Education is the science of sciences

#EveryoneMicrosoft

Who are we and why are we talking?

The Law of Halves

Autopsy

Walking with a drone

Scaling up critical thinking against extreme poverty

Flow

Complexity and scale in learning: a quantum leap to sustainability

Catch up on Scaling corporate learning event

Opening workplace learning

Scaling corporate learning

Performance

The Robot (Education) Lady

In the leafy month of June

Quick Q&A with George Siemens on corporate MOOCs

From communication to education

Learn and change

A question of such immense and worldwide importance

Sustainability

Panamanian chicken

Four billion

There is no scale

Divonne

Pipeline

Know-where

Presentation for People In Aid: How scale can transform humanitarian education

Making learning strategic in development and humanitarian organizations

Bill Gates on education, MOOCs, poverty and disease

Back to London on Thursday to talk learning strategy for humanitarian and development organizations

Scaling up humanitarian education: my presentation at the European MOOC Summit

Meet Barbara Moser-Mercer, the lady who did MOOCs in a refugee camp

MOOCs for international and nongovernmental organizations

LSi.io interviews Plan B’s Donald Clark: Universities and humanitarian organizations in the Age of Disruption

European MOOC Summit: What looks tasty – for organizations thinking about transforming how they learn

Learning beyond training, to survive and grow

Learning Technologies in London and European MOOCs in Lausanne

Quality in humanitarian education

The significance of technology for humanitarian education

Community health into the scalable, networked future of learning

Fahamu

Power of Humanity, Power of Education: Presentation at the AIESEC Youth 2 Business Forum, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (20 August 2013)

ASTD Learning Executive Briefing: Reda Sadki

Teaching logistics with haptic feedback

Learning in a VUCA world: IFRC FACT and ERU Global Meeting (Vienna, 31 May 2013)

Accreditation in higher education is based primarily on inputs rather than outcomes

Badges for online learning: gimmick or game-changer?

Thinking about learning technology: is the product metaphor obsolete?

Mobile learning: the “anywhere” in the affordance of ubiquity

Mobile learning: the “anywhere” in the affordance of ubiquity

Badges for online learning: gimmick or game-changer?

Thinking about the first Red Cross Red Crescent MOOC

Maybe old learning isn’t so bad, after all?

Maybe old learning isn’t so bad, after all?

The End of Paper: Interview with Richard Padley of Semantico

Katja Mruck on starting a peer-reviewed open access journal

Masooda Bano: the impact of international aid on volunteering and development

Opening access to Red Cross knowledge: an interview with John Willinsky, Public Knowledge Project, Stanford University

Chronology of a new transit camp on the Tunisian border (Part 2 of 2): Going live

Chronology of a new transit camp on the Tunisian border (Part 1 of 2)

Ras Jedir: feverish early days and freezing nights

TOC Frankfurt Ignite! Presentation: Of Emergencies, E-Books, and Literacy

What is a system?

Survivre au sida: Celebrating life to fight racism, poverty, and disease in the poor suburbs of Paris

A few of my favorite excerpts from George Siemens’s Knowing Knowledge (2006)

Colonialism and disease: tuberculosis in Algeria

How to Solve It