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

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

    The Geneva Learning Foundation is pleased to announce the tenth edition of Teach to Reach, to be held 20-21 June 2024.

    Teach to Reach is a massive, open peer learning event where health professionals network, and learn with colleagues from all over the world. Request your invitation…

    Teach to Reach 10 continues a tradition of groundbreaking peer learning started in 2020, when over 3,000 health workers from 80 countries came together to improve immunization training.

    17,662 health professionals – over 80% from districts and facilities, half working for government – participated in Teach to Reach 9 in October 2023. Participants shared 940 experiences ahead of the event. See what we learned at Teach to Reach 9 or view Insights Live with Dr Orin Levine.

    Teach to Reach is a platform, community, and network to amplify voices from lower-resource settings bearing the greatest burden of disease.

    Teach to Reach 10 will focus on the impacts of climate change on health, following the publication of a ground-breaking report sharing insights of over 1,200 health workers.

    In the video below, learn from the experiences of 4,700 participants in our Special Event: From community to planet: Health professionals on the frontlines of climate change.

    Poor connectivity? You will find the videos on this page in the low-bandwidth, audio-only Teach to Reach podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or Amazon Podcasts.

    Alongside this theme, other critical health challenges selected by participants for this tenth edition include the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030), neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), and neglected needs of women’s health.

    In this video of a Teach to Reach session, learn about local action led by community-based health workers to tackle Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), a neglected tropical disease that affects an estimated 56 million women and girls.

    In the run-up to Teach to Reach 10, participants will share their real-world experience. Every success, lessons learned, and challenge will be shared back with the community and brought to the attention of partners.

    The Manifesto for investment in health workers, a visionary statement elaborated by over 1,300 health workers, will be launched at Teach to Reach 10.

    A diverse range of over 50 global organizations have partnered with Teach to Reach since 2020, including Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, the Wellcome Trust, and UNICEF.

    The next video is a session with UNICEF on reaching zero-dose children in urban settings.

    Alongside global partners and ministries of health, local community-based organizations will also be invited to become Teach to Reach partners.

    Partners are invited to join the first Partner Briefing on Monday 4 March 2024, bringing together global health organizations with a commitment to listening and learning from health workers and the communities they serve.

    Illustration: The Geneva Learning Foundation © 2024

  • Why an open-source manifesto for global health?

    Why an open-source manifesto for global health?

    Lire la version française: Pourquoi un manifeste open-source pour la santé globale?

    The global immunization community is now focused on “the big catch-up”, dealing with recovery of immunization services from the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, as countries – and immunization staff on the frontlines – work toward the goals of Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

    At the Seventy-Fourth World Health Assembly, the Director General of the World Health Organization had called for “a broad social movement for immunization that will ensure that immunization remains high on global and regional health agendas and help to generate a groundswell of support or social movement for immunization”.

    A Movement is larger than any one individual or organization. The Geneva Learning Foundation is one of many working to support this Movement. In March 2022, we launched a call for immunization staff at all levels of the health system to connect across boundaries of geography and hierarchy – to commit to working together to achieve the goals of Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

    In 2022, over 10,000 health professionals, primarily government workers from districts and facilities, joined this movement and shared ideas and practices, analyzed root causes of their local immunization challenges, and developed and implemented corrective actions to tackle them, together. Learn more…

    Today, we share an open-source Manifesto for how health services could develop in ways that we think would make them more effective, recognizing health workers and communities – and the expertise and experience they hold because they are “there every day” – at the centre of public health systems.

    No vision or strategy can or should be developed as a pronouncement by a single organization of how things should be.

    • This Manifesto is an open-source draft because, in today’s complex world, we tackle challenges that no one country or organization can possibly overcome alone.
    • For such a manifesto to be meaningful requires the participation, and contribution of those on the frontlines of global health, in dialogue with global, regional, and country leaders.

    This is why we are inviting you – along with more than 10,000 members of the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030 – to bring to life and shape this Manifesto.

    Version 1.0 of the manifesto was first shared in a special issue of The Double Loop, the Geneva Learning Foundation’s insights newsletter. Learn more…

  • Pourquoi un manifeste open-source pour la santé globale?

    Pourquoi un manifeste open-source pour la santé globale?

    Read this in English: Why an open-source manifesto for global health?

    La communauté mondiale de la vaccination se concentre désormais sur le « grand rattrapage », en priorisant le rétablissement des services de vaccination suite aux conséquences de la pandémie de COVID-19, alors que les pays—et le personnel de la vaccination en première ligne—s’efforcent d’atteindre les objectifs du Programme pour la vaccination à l’horizon 2030 (IA2030).

    Lors de la soixante-quatorzième Assemblée mondiale de la santé, le directeur général de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé avait lancé un appel en faveur d’un « vaste mouvement social pour la vaccination qui veillera à ce que la vaccination reste une priorité dans les programmes de santé internationaux et régionaux et contribuera à susciter une vague de soutien ou un mouvement social en faveur de la vaccination ».

    Un mouvement est plus grand qu’un seul pays ou une seule organisation. La Fondation Apprendre Genève est l’une des nombreuses organisations à œuvrer pour insuffler ce Mouvement. En mars 2022, nous avons lancé un appel au personnel chargé de la vaccination à tous les niveaux du système de santé pour tisser des liens par-delà des frontières géographiques et s’engager à travailler ensemble pour atteindre les objectifs de «IA2030». En 2022, plus de 10 000 professionnels de la santé, principalement des fonctionnaires et des acteurs de la société civile issus des districts et des établissements de santé, ont rejoint ce mouvement. Ensemble, ils ont partagé des idées et des pratiques, analysé les causes profondes de leurs difficultés locales en matière de vaccination, et élaboré et mis en œuvre des mesures correctives pour surmonter leurs défis.

    Aujourd’hui, nous partageons ce manifeste «open source» sur la façon dont les services de santé pourraient se développer de manière à les rendre plus efficaces, nous reconnaissons les professionnels de la santé et les communautés—ainsi que l’expertise et l’expérience qu’ils détiennent parce qu’ils sont « là tous les jours »—au centre des systèmes de santé publique.

    Ce Manifeste est un projet «open source» car, dans le monde complexe d’aujourd’hui, nous sommes confrontés à des défis qu’aucun pays ou organisation ne peut relever seul.

    • Aucune vision ou stratégie ne saurait être élaborée en tant que déclaration d’une seule organisation sur la façon dont les choses devraient être.
    • Pour qu’un tel manifeste ait un sens, il faut la participation et la contribution de ceux qui sont en première ligne de la santé mondiale, dans le cadre d’un dialogue avec les dirigeants internationaux, régionaux et nationaux.

    C’est pourquoi nous vous invitons à donner vie et forme à ce Manifeste, et à rejoindre les plus de 10,000 membres du Mouvement pour la vaccination à l’horizon 2030 dont l’action et la réflexion ont été sources d’inspiration du Manifeste.

    Le manifeste a d’abord été diffusé sous la forme d’un numéro spécial de The Double Loop (La Double Boucle), le bulletin de l’Unité de recherche de la Fondation. Pour en savoir plus…