Reda Sadki
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