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What works in practice to build vaccine confidence?
This is the content of a poster about vaccine confidence presented today by The Geneva Learning Foundation (LinkedIn | YouTube | Podcast | X/Twitter) at the International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit 2022 (#SBCCSummit) held 5-9 December 2022 in Marrakech, Morocco. What is the Geneva Learning Foundation? Get the full report… Read the preface by Heidi Larson… Vaccine confidence: from responding…
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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”
This is the preface by Heidi Larson for the report “Overcoming barriers to vaccine acceptance in the community: Key learning from the experiences of 734 frontline health workers”. This report is presented today by The Geneva Learning Foundation (LinkedIn | YouTube | Podcast | Twitter) at the International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit 2022 (#SBCCSummit) held 5-9 December 2022 in Marrakech,…
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What is a “rubric” and why use rubrics in global health education?
Rubrics are well-established, evidence-based tools in education, but largely unknown in global health. At the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), the rubric is a key tool that we use – as part of a comprehensive package of interventions – to transform high-cost, low-volume training dependent on the limited availability of global experts into scalable peer learning to improve access, quality, and outcomes.…
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Pandemic preparedness through connected transnational digital networks of local actors
What is the link between pandemic preparedness, digital networks, and local action? In the Geneva Learning Foundation’s approach to effective humanitarian learning, knowledge acquisition and competency development are both necessary but insufficient. This is why, in July 2019, we built the first Impact Accelerator, to support local practitioners beyond learning outcomes all the way to…
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Reinventing the path from knowledge to action in global health
At the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), we have just begun to share a publication like no other. It is titled Overcoming barriers to vaccine acceptance in the community: Key learning from the experiences of 734 frontline health workers. You can access the full report here in French and in English. Short summaries are also available in three…
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Which is better for global health: online, blended, or face-to-face learning?
Question 1. Does supplementing face-to-face instruction with online instruction enhance learning? No. Positive effects associated with blended learning should not be attributed to the media, per se. (It is more likely that positive effects are due to people doing more work in blended learning, once online and then again in a physical space.) This is…
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How we make sense of complexity, together, at the Geneva Learning Foundation
Unique learning experiences generate not just data points but complex stories about what it takes to make change actually happen. By connecting the dots between ideas and implementation, we can zero in on the highest-value insights. Our Insights Unit uses the latest advances in learning analytics to map how ideas and practices shared between countries and system…
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How does the Geneva Learning Foundation’s approach break the norm?
100% digital 100% human: using the latest learning technologies and interfaces, we adapt our digital networking interfaces to learner needs and habits to augment their digital and networking capabilities. Grounded in experience: we foster problem-solving that values both participants’ lived experience and the world’s best available global knowledge. We open access: participation can be opened for all, across geographic, sectoral…
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The Geneva Learning Foundation: Localizing programming and grounding policy
By defying distance to connect with each other, practitioners expand the realm of what they are able to know beyond their local boundaries. Listening to these diverse voices and experiences is critical to inform programming, policy and decision-making and build bridges across sectoral silos and other boundaries, by providing: Thousands of ideas are turned into action, results,…
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The Geneva Learning Foundation: Scale, reach, and sustainability
In its first years of operation, the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) built digital infrastructure to foster and support several global networks and platforms connecting practitioners. Communities supported included:• immunization and primary health care professionals,• humanitarian workers advocating gender equality during disasters and other emergency operations,• doctors, other health workers, and communities addressing neglected needs in…
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