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Teach to Reach (English)
Hosted by The Geneva Learning Foundation · EN
Meet, network, and learn with fellow immunization and other health professionals from all over the world.
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Networking at Teach to Reach 11: Defying boundaries to share what works for health
Dec 28, 202400:46:50Tap to summarize# Health Leaders Report Valuable Exchanges in Teach to Reach Networking Session ## Structured Approach to Peer Learning The final session of Teach to Reach 11 on December 5, 2024, demonstrated the power of structured networking to facilitate meaningful knowledge exchange between health professionals. Participants engaged in focused small-group conversations. ## Benefits of Organizational Engagement The session highlighted four key benefits for participating organizations: - Recognition of real-world expertise through peer validation - Reciprocal learning opportunities regardless of organization size - Integration into a global platform and community - Skills development through active learning for staff and volunteers ## Cross-Border Knowledge Exchange Health leaders reported valuable cross-border exchanges in their breakout groups. A participant from India described productive discussions with colleagues from Ghana and Nigeria, leading to plans for continued collaboration: “We decided to connect with emails and personally in the group and then one-to-one interaction... If somebody is doing work on immunization in one part of the world, somebody else is also doing the same thing, so they can connect and discuss issues, barriers, and breakthroughs.” ## Solutions Through Connection Participants emphasized how networking enabled practical problem-solving. “If you have a particular issue that is difficult for you to solve, having the opportunity to discuss with one person, maybe he has strategies he adopted in his environment that can be suitable for you,” explained Usman Mohammed Tukor from Nigeria. He highlighted how these connections could strengthen responses to challenges like climate change impacts on health. ## Local Innovation Sharing The discussions surfaced innovative local approaches. Sadatu Kabir from Bauchi State, Nigeria, shared their community engagement structure: “We have a committee at the community level... and a community resource group called Mama to Mama that can go house to house to assess problems and needs.” This included creative solutions like an emergency transport system to improve healthcare access. ## Progressive Engagement The session’s structure—moving from brief introductions to increasingly longer discussions—allowed relationships to develop naturally. As Charlotte Mbuh from the facilitation team noted, “Even when starting with just introductions, participants quickly moved into deeper discussions about their work.” ## Platform for Continued Connection Beyond the live sessions, Teach to Reach introduced a new platform feature allowing participants to create profiles and maintain connections with over 15,000 health workers. This infrastructure supports ongoing peer learning and collaboration between live events. ## Looking Ahead The networking session concluded Teach to Reach 11’s main event, but participants were encouraged to maintain their connections through: - Upcoming special sessions, including a December 13 event with the Lancet Countdown - The Reach Leaders and Partners Network - The platform’s networking features - Future Teach to Reach events, with the 12th edition planned for March 2025 The success of this structured networking approach demonstrates how intentional connection-building between health professionals can catalyze knowledge sharing and practical innovation to address global health challenges.
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Climate-health risks and barriers: Grand Challenges Canada at Teach to Reach 11 (5 December 2024)
Dec 27, 202400:59:36Tap to summarize# Before launching a survey on climate-health barriers and risks, Grand Challenges Canada listened and learned at Teach to Reach 11 ## New Partnership to Amplify Frontline Voices Grand Challenges Canada announced a pioneering partnership at Teach to Reach 11 on December 5, 2024, launching a global initiative to capture frontline health workers’ experiences of climate change impacts. The organization will begin with a pilot survey among Teach to Reach participants, informing a major new climate and health funding program planned for 2026. “We want to take the questions to those best placed to identify the problems – the people at the frontlines of this climate crisis,” explained Joanna Sanchez, an epidemiologist representing Grand Challenges Canada. The initiative aims to identify critical barriers preventing effective responses to climate-related health challenges in low and middle-income countries. ## Frontline Testimonies of Climate Impact Health workers shared powerful accounts from their communities. In the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, Dr. Mahesh Bhatt described a “vicious cycle” where climate change is disrupting social determinants of health. “The frequency and severity of extreme weather events, flash floods, forest fires, disasters and new diseases like malaria and dengue have increased in the last two decades,” he reported, emphasizing that local communities with minimal carbon footprints are bearing the heaviest burden. Margaret Nabagala from Uganda detailed recent devastating impacts: “We lost 82 lives in Eastern Uganda due to soil erosion and flooding. Homesteads were flooded and covered with soil.” She outlined government efforts to relocate affected communities and strengthen early warning systems. ## Barriers to Effective Response Health workers identified specific obstacles hampering their efforts. Alima Usman from Nigeria described challenges during flood response: “Because the water was so much, we couldn’t get access to electric boats. We had to use local boats available in the community, which slowed rescue efforts.” Community understanding emerged as another key challenge. Usman Mohammed Tukor noted: “People don’t believe climate change affects their health. There is need for people to know how it is related to their health.” He explained how poor sanitation and drainage create mosquito breeding grounds, increasing malaria risk, particularly among pregnant women. ## Innovative Funding Approach The new Grand Challenges Canada program, launching in early 2026, will support innovative local solutions to climate-health challenges. “We’re looking for big ideas for big problems,” said Sanchez, emphasizing that funding will be open to organizations from all low and middle-income countries. The program may feature region-specific funding streams based on survey findings. ## Participatory Research Design The partnership represents a shift in how climate and health funding priorities are determined. “No one is asking us. We are here. We are seeing the challenges, we are experiencing them,” Sanchez quoted from earlier consultations, explaining the choice of a participatory approach. ## Next Steps The pilot survey with Teach to Reach participants will inform a broader global survey in 2026. Results will guide funding priorities and serve as a public resource for policymakers, researchers, and funders working on climate and health challenges. The initiative recognizes that while climate change is a global crisis, its health impacts disproportionately affect communities that have contributed least to the problem. Through this partnership, Grand Challenges Canada aims to ensure that solutions are informed by and responsive to frontline experiences.
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Leaders & Partners Forum: Health leaders at Teach to Reach 11 (6 December 2024)
Dec 27, 202401:07:06Tap to summarize# Health leaders share practical solutions at Teach to Reach forum “We would like to strengthen the capacity of community health promoters and align with global efforts in health education,” said Alicia Sheringham from Kenya’s national association for community health workers (ARCHVOG) during the December 5 Leaders and Partners Forum. Her organization, like many others joining Teach to Reach 11, aims to connect local health needs with broader health initiatives. The forum brought together health workers from community clinics to national programs to share what works in their communities. This continues the peer learning approach that engaged over 21,000 participants in June 2024, with 80% working at district and facility levels. ## Real challenges, real solutions In Nigeria’s Bauchi State, Ibilola Atureta explained how Glorious Elixir Foundation conducts medical outreach: “We do medical outreaches to some communities here. Teach to Reach has exposed me to community and collaboration we can learn from ourselves.” Small group discussions revealed common challenges across borders. Bernard Oteno, whose year-old organization works on malaria prevention in Kenya, noted their main barrier: “The main challenge we still have is funding, because it’s just a small organization that has about 50 people, community health workers coming together.” ## Learning from each other In structured networking sessions, participants shared specific solutions despite technical challenges. One group discussion included experiences from Ghana about staffing issues, vaccine availability challenges in Abuja, and efforts to involve community health workers in decision-making in Kenya. Dr. Mahesh Bhatt, working in India’s Himalayan region, described the value of these connections: “If somebody is doing some work on immunization in other part of the world, somebody else is also doing the same thing - they can connect with each other and discuss the issues and barriers as well as the breakthroughs.” ## Next steps The forum preceded sessions focusing on: - Nigeria’s immunization collaborative - Malaria prevention and control with RBM Partnership - Climate change health impacts with Grand Challenges Canada Organizations interested in participating can learn more through the conference platform. There is no cost for locally-led organizations serving community needs. The forum demonstrates how connecting health workers across borders helps share practical solutions to common challenges. As Chinwe Enechukwu noted after a networking session: “It was a wonderful room. I would love to go back and continue with the discussion.”
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Year in Review 2024: An AI-generated podcast about The Geneva Learning Foundation’s progress
Dec 21, 202400:30:00Tap to summarizeAn AI-generated dialogue exploring The Geneva Learning Foundation’s progress in 2024 This experimental AI-generated podcast demonstrates a novel approach to exploring complex learning concepts through structured dialogue. Based on TGLF’s 2024 end-of-year message and supplementary materials, the conversation examines their peer learning model through a combination of concrete examples and theoretical reflection. The dialogue format enables exploration of how knowledge emerges through structured interaction, even in AI-generated content. Experimental nature and limitations: This content is being shared as an exploration of how AI might contribute to learning and knowledge construction. While based on TGLF’s actual 2024 message, the dialogue includes AI-generated elaborations that may contain inaccuracies. However, these limitations themselves provide interesting insights into how knowledge emerges through interaction, even in artificial contexts. Pedagogical value and theoretical implications: 1. Structured knowledge construction: The conversational format illustrates how knowledge can emerge through carefully structured dialogue, even when artificially generated. This mirrors TGLF’s own insights about how structure enables rather than constrains learning. 2. Multi-level learning: The dialogue operates on multiple levels: - Direct information sharing about TGLF’s work - Modeling of reflective dialogue - Meta-level exploration of how knowledge emerges through interaction - Integration of concrete examples with theoretical reflection 1. Network effects in learning: The conversation demonstrates how different types of knowledge (statistical, narrative, theoretical, practical) can be woven together through dialogue to create deeper understanding. This parallels TGLF’s observations about how learning emerges through structured networks of interaction. We invite listeners to consider: - How dialogue enables exploration of complex ideas - The role of structure in enabling knowledge emergence - The relationship between concrete examples and theoretical understanding - The potential and limitations of AI in supporting learning processes This experiment invites reflection not just on the content itself, but on how knowledge and understanding emerge through structured interaction - whether human or artificial. Your insights about how this format affects your understanding will help inform future explorations of AI’s role in learning. What aspects of the dialogue format enhanced or hindered your understanding? How did the interplay of concrete examples and reflective discussion affect your learning? We welcome your thoughts on these deeper questions about how learning happens through structured interaction.
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Season’s greetings from The Geneva Learning Foundation (20 December 2024)
Dec 20, 202400:03:36Tap to summarizeWe will publish a selection of your TGLF stories submitted by 5 January 2025. Looking ahead to 2025, we’re excited to build on this momentum together. While we know this is a difficult time for many colleagues, particularly those serving communities affected by crisis and conflict, we hope you can find moments of peace and connection. We deeply appreciate your commitment to learning and leading change. Together, we are showing that new ways of learning and connecting can strengthen health and hope in communities worldwide. More than that, we’re demonstrating that when we rethink how learning happens, we can unlock unprecedented possibilities for positive change. Wishing you renewed energy and inspiration for the journey ahead. Reda Sadki The Geneva Learning Foundation PS You can learn more from experiences shared on our YouTube, Telegram, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook channels. Are you following us?
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Lancet Countdown X Teach to Reach
Dec 16, 202401:12:36Tap to summarizeJoin us for this Teach to Reach dialogue between research and experience, with Dr Marina Romanello, the Countdown’s Executive Director. Register now for this special event https://bit.ly/TeachToReach11 The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change brings the data. Health workers bring the stories. Teach to Reach is the world’s largest peer learning platform for health workers. 24,583 health workers – primarily government staff from Africa, Asia, and Latin America – on the frontlines of climate change and health joined the eleventh edition on 5-6 December 2024. How do The Lancet Countdown’s global findings align with what health workers observe first-hand in their communities? How might scientific data and health worker experiences combine to deepen our understanding of climate change’s health impacts?
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Malaria: Health workers share their experience at Teach to Reach 11
Dec 15, 202401:15:19Tap to summarizeTo end malaria, we must empower the people closest to the problem – health workers in affected communities. A special event organized by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in partnership with RBM Partnership to End Malaria brought together health workers from every malaria-endemic country to share firsthand experiences fighting malaria. Over 1,700 health professionals (619 francophone and 1,096 anglophone) registered for this bilingual event, which connected practitioners across language barriers from high-burden countries including Nigeria, DRC, Kenya, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire, and Cameroon. The partnership aims to integrate community-based health workers’ insights into global malaria elimination strategies. Health workers shared powerful testimonials and practical experiences: - Impacts of extreme weather and flooding on disease transmission patterns - Growing drug resistance concerns and supply chain disruptions - Innovative community engagement strategies for prevention - Successes and challenges in vaccine introduction - Cultural barriers to early treatment seeking - Local adaptations of bed net distribution methods - Strategies for reaching remote communities, especially during floods - Special approaches for protecting pregnant women and children This enabled meaningful exchange despite geographical and technological barriers. This innovative format aimed to enable authentic exchange of practical, experiential knowledge that complements scientific expertise, guidelines and plans. The event is part of TGLF’s peer learning to action process that includes: 1. Structured pre-event knowledge sharing through targeted questions 2. Direct exchange and network building during events 3. Post-event support to turn insights into action through facilitated planning and implementation For global health funders and malaria partners, this model offers a scalable approach to strengthening elimination efforts through locally-led action. Research has shown it can accelerate implementation of new approaches by up to 7x compared to traditional methods, with particular effectiveness in fragile contexts. The special event also demonstrated how digital platforms can enable meaningful practitioner exchange at scale. By connecting those closest to the challenges with those shaping global strategy, such exchanges help ensure malaria elimination efforts are grounded in local realities while building health workers’ capacity to lead change in their communities. This is a replay of the Special Event recorded on 10 December 2024.
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Malaria: Health workers share their experience at Teach to Reach 11
Dec 15, 202401:15:22Tap to summarizeTo end malaria, we must empower the people closest to the problem – health workers in affected communities. A special event organized by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in partnership with RBM Partnership to End Malaria brought together health workers from every malaria-endemic country to share firsthand experiences fighting malaria. Over 1,700 health professionals (619 francophone and 1,096 anglophone) registered for this bilingual event, which connected practitioners across language barriers from high-burden countries including Nigeria, DRC, Kenya, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire, and Cameroon. The partnership aims to integrate community-based health workers’ insights into global malaria elimination strategies. Health workers shared powerful testimonials and practical experiences: - Impacts of extreme weather and flooding on disease transmission patterns - Growing drug resistance concerns and supply chain disruptions - Innovative community engagement strategies for prevention - Successes and challenges in vaccine introduction - Cultural barriers to early treatment seeking - Local adaptations of bed net distribution methods - Strategies for reaching remote communities, especially during floods - Special approaches for protecting pregnant women and children This enabled meaningful exchange despite geographical and technological barriers. This innovative format aimed to enable authentic exchange of practical, experiential knowledge that complements scientific expertise, guidelines and plans. The event is part of TGLF’s peer learning to action process that includes: 1. Structured pre-event knowledge sharing through targeted questions 2. Direct exchange and network building during events 3. Post-event support to turn insights into action through facilitated planning and implementation For global health funders and malaria partners, this model offers a scalable approach to strengthening elimination efforts through locally-led action. Research has shown it can accelerate implementation of new approaches by up to 7x compared to traditional methods, with particular effectiveness in fragile contexts. The special event also demonstrated how digital platforms can enable meaningful practitioner exchange at scale. By connecting those closest to the challenges with those shaping global strategy, such exchanges help ensure malaria elimination efforts are grounded in local realities while building health workers’ capacity to lead change in their communities. This is the English-language recording of the Special Event recorded on 10 December 2024.
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Teach to Reach 11 Live (Morning Sessions 5 December 2024)
Dec 15, 202402:05:11Tap to summarizeJoin us for the live stream of Teach to Reach 11's morning sessions on December 5, 2024, where over 23,000 health professionals from 70+ countries come together to share experiences and drive positive change in global health. Request your invitation: https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach Need the direct link to join Teach to Reach 11? Visit: https://bit.ly/TeachToReach11 Why participate in Teach to Reach? Follow this link https://redasadki.me/2024/10/03/why-participate-in-teach-to-reach-11/ Whether you are a community health worker, program manager, or global health professional, these sessions offer valuable perspectives on tackling today's most urgent health challenges through collaborative learning and local action. This stream is for the English session on Thursday morning. While you cannot participate directly in the networking, you can share your thoughts and experiences in the comments. Our team reads all comments and will incorporate your insights into the ongoing discussions. Stay tuned for another live stream in the afternoon featuring sessions on immunization, malaria prevention, and climate change impacts on health.
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Teach to Reach 11 Live (Afternoon Sessions 5 December 2024)
Dec 9, 202400:50:46Tap to summarizeJoin us for the live stream of Teach to Reach 11's afternoon sessions on December 5, 2024. Schedule (all times UTC+1): 13:00-13:45 - Nigeria Immunization Agenda 2030 Collaborative 14:00-14:30 - Preview: Health workers unite to end malaria 14:30-15:30 - Climate change and Health 15:30-16:30 - Networking Session Request your invitation: https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach Need the direct link to join Teach to Reach 11? Visit: https://bit.ly/TeachToReach11 Why participate in Teach to Reach? Follow this link https://redasadki.me/2024/10/03/why-participate-in-teach-to-reach-11/ Whether you are a community health worker, program manager, or global health professional, these sessions offer valuable perspectives on tackling today's most urgent health challenges through collaborative learning and local action. This stream is for the English session on Thursday afternoon. While you cannot participate directly in the networking, you can share your thoughts and experiences in the comments. Our team reads all comments and will incorporate your insights into the ongoing discussions. If you missed the morning sessions, you can find recordings on our channel. Stay engaged with health professionals from over 70 countries as we work together to strengthen local health systems and drive positive change in our communities.
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