# Five years on: What we learned from the COVID-19 Peer Hub could help prepare for the next pandemic This podcast explores the remarkable story of the COVID-19 Peer Hub, an innovative digital network created by the Geneva Learning Foundation during the early days of the pandemic. As we mark five years since WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, we examine how this unique approach helped maintain essential health services when they were most at risk. When the pandemic hit, routine immunization services were severely disrupted, placing over 80 million children at risk of missing vaccines for preventable diseases like measles and polio. Traditional training models couldn't adapt quickly enough to this unprecedented crisis. There were no existing guidelines for the challenges health workers faced on the ground. The Geneva Learning Foundation responded by creating the COVID-19 Peer Hub, connecting 6,000+ frontline health workers across Africa, Asia, and Latin Ame...