Insights from the Geneva Learning Foundation
The Geneva Learning Foundation
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About Insights from the Geneva Learning Foundation
Singular insights by and for the people who make global health. Health workers connect with peers and international partners to accelerate immunization and primary health care learning, service improvement and management strengthening. Produced by the Geneva Learning Foundation’s Insights Unit
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- First episode
- 30 Mar 2022
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- 20 Dec 2024
Latest episodes
18 episodes in the feed.
20 Dec 2024
Year in Review 2024: An AI-generated podcast about The Geneva Learning Foundation’s progress
The Geneva Learning Foundation's AI-generated podcast explores their 2024 progress and peer learning model, revealing how structured interaction enables knowledge emergence, even in artificial contexts.
20 Dec 2024
Season’s greetings from The Geneva Learning Foundation (20 December 2024)
Reda Sadki from The Geneva Learning Foundation shares insights on how rethinking learning can unlock unprecedented possibilities for positive change and strengthen health and hope in communities worldwide.
14 Dec 2024
Lancet Countdown X Teach to Reach
Dr Marina Romanello and health workers share insights on how Lancet Countdown data and frontline experiences combine to deepen understanding of climate change's health impacts.
16 Oct 2024
Briefing for key partners: Teach to Reach 11 launch preparation
Discover Teach to Reach: Transforming global health through peer learning Join us for an exclusive briefing on Teach to Reach, an innovative peer learning platform revolutionizing how global health knowledge is shared and applied. This event is designed for organizations and individuals passionate about improving health outcomes worldwide. What is Teach to Reach? Teach to Reach is a unique digital space where frontline health workers, policymakers, and global health experts come together to share experiences, learn from each other, and collaboratively address pressing health challenges. It’s not just another conference - it’s a dynamic, ongoing community dedicated to turning knowledge into action. Follow these links to learn more Why participate in Teach to Reach? https://redasadki.me/2024/10/03/why-participate-in-teach-to-reach-11/ How Teach to Reach can help your organization https://redasadki.me/2024/10/07/how-teach-to-reach-can-help-your-organization/ Why become a Teach to Reach Partner? https://redasadki.me/2024/10/07/why-become-a-teach-to-reach-partner/ Why Attend This Briefing? 1. Gain Unparalleled Insights: Learn how Teach to Reach connects over 21,000 health professionals from 70+ countries, bringing ground-level perspectives to global health dialogues. 2. Explore Partnership Opportunities: Discover how your organization can engage with this diverse network, including 2,400+ local community-based organizations. 3. See Real Impact: Hear concrete examples of how leading organizations like WHO, UNICEF, and Gavi have leveraged Teach to Reach to inform their strategies and improve health outcomes. 4. Shape Future Health Initiatives: Understand how you can contribute to and benefit from discussions on critical issues like climate change’s impact on health, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and women’s health. 5. Enhance Your Research and Programs: Learn about innovative approaches to inclusive, participatory research and program implementation. Who Should Attend? • Global health organizations • Research institutions • Policymakers • Funders and donors • NGOs and community-based organizations • Anyone passionate about improving global health through collaborative learning Join us to explore how Teach to Reach can complement and enhance your work, offering a unique bridge between global strategies and local realities. Together, we can create a more equitable and effective global health ecosystem.
22 Mar 2024
Climate change and health from developing countries: insights from 1200+ health workers
Today, the Geneva Learning Foundation’s Charlotte Mbuh delivered a presentation at the Online Expert Seminar on Climate Change and Health: Perspectives from Developing Countries. #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHealth The event was organized by the International Expert Centre of Climate Change and Health (IECCCH) at the Research and Transfer Centre Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, in collaboration with the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR), the UK Consortium on Sustainability Research (UK-CSR), and the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP). Mbuh shared insights from a report based on observations from frontline health workers on the impact of climate change on health in their communities. The Geneva Learning Foundation, a Swiss non-profit, facilitated two digital events in July 2023, engaging 4,700 health practitioners from 68 countries who submitted 1,260 observations. Watch the special event “From community to planet: Health professionals on the frontlines of climate change” https://www.learning.foundation/climate Get the insights from 1200+ health workers on the frontline of climate and health https://www.learning.foundation/cop28 “93% of respondents believed that there was a link between climate change and health, and they reported a direct local experience of a wide range of climatic and environmental impacts,” Mbuh stated. The most commonly reported impacts were on farming and farmland, the distribution of disease-carrying insects, and urban areas becoming hotter. Health impacts linked to these climatic and environmental changes included increased malnutrition and/or undernutrition, increased waterborne diseases, and changes to the incidence and distribution of vector-borne diseases. Mbuh emphasized that these impacts were particularly prevalent in smaller communities or mid-sized towns. Mbuh highlighted the unique role of frontline health workers as trusted advisors to their communities: “Frontline health workers are trusted advisors of the communities that they serve, and they have unique insights to local realities and are strategically positioned to bring about change,” she said. The Geneva Learning Foundation aims to leverage its digitally-enabled peer learning network of health workers to drive change across different levels of the health system and geographical boundaries. Mbuh concluded : “These experiences demonstrate the importance of community engagement, sustainable practices, and support from relevant stakeholders in addressing the climate health nexus and building resilience in the face of a changing climate.” The presentation underscored the urgent need to invest in frontline health workers at the local level to build resilience against the impacts of climate change on health, particularly in vulnerable communities in developing countries.
31 Jan 2024
Immunization: Teach to Reach 9 Insights Live with Orin Levine
You are cordially invited to join Teach to Reach 9 Insights Live with Dr Orin Levine. In this dialogue, we will explore what we learned from Teach to Reach 9 on 13 October 2023. Poor connectivity? Subscribe to the audio-only podcast https://www.learning.foundation/podcast 17,662 health professionals – over 80% from districts and facilities, half working for government – participated in this massive, online peer learning event. Teach to Reach 9 Contributors shared 940 experiences ahead of the event. Dr. Orin Levine, Non Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development, will join us, together with Teach to Reach 9 Contributors. Discussion topics that we will explore together, grounded in real-world experiences shared by Teach to Reach 9 participants, include: • Best practices and challenges faced by mobile vaccination teams • Effective management of parental concerns over vaccine side effects • Use of data systems and technology to identify and target zero-dose children • Productive partnerships with community structures to advance immunization • Strategies for coping with stockouts and bringing back hesitant parents • Equipment and transportation barriers faced by healthcare workers • Leveraging mobile phones, social media to bolster vaccine coverage • Drivers of vaccine wastage and potential solutions • Applying learnings from disease outbreaks to fill immunization gaps • Fostering accountability among health workers and parents Get the Teach to Reach 9 Experiences https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10062521 Request your invitation now for Teach to Reach 10 https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach The Geneva Learning Foundation’s research has shown that the lack of continuous learning opportunities hinders immunization performance at all levels of the health system. Insights Live is one of a set of interventions aimed at strengthening continuous learning. Learn more about motivation, learning culture, and programme performance https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7004304
30 Nov 2023
Insights Live #8: Early learning from Teach to Reach 9
Join this new edition of Insights Live to discover what we learned at Teach to Reach 9, the world’s largest networking event held on 13 October 2023, with 17,662 participating. Request your invitation to the next edition of Teach to Reach: Connect https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach See all Teach to Reach lessons https://zenodo.org/communities/teachtoreach Topics explored at Teach to Reach 9 include: * Zero-dose children in urban settings * Measles outbreak response * HPV vaccination * Manifesto for global health * Neglected needs of women’s health * Climate change and health Poor connectivity? Get the podcast https://www.learning.foundation/podcast Teach to Reach 9 aims to contribute to the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) and to the Manifesto for Global Health. Subscribe to the Geneva Learning Foundation’s global health insights newsletter https://www.learning.foundation/loop
31 Oct 2023
ASTMH Symposium: What learning science underpins peer learning for global health? #TropMed23
“If health workers do not share their challenges and solutions, we are bound to fail.” Most significant learning that contributes to improved performance takes place outside of formal training. It occurs through informal and incidental forms of learning between peers. Effective use of peer learning requires realizing how much we can learn from each other (peer learning), experiencing the power of defying distance to solve problems together (remote learning), and feeling a growing sense of belonging to a community (social learning), emergent across country borders and health system levels (networked learning). At the ASTMH annual meeting Symposium organized by Julie Jacobson, two TGLF Alumnae, María Monzón from Argentina and Ruth Allotey from Ghana, will be sharing their analyses and reflections of how they turned peer learning into action, results, and impact. In his presentation, Reda Sadki, president of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), will explore: 1. What do we need to understand about digital learning? 2. Networked learning: rethinking learning architecture in the Digital Age 3. Social learning: peer learning is about making human connections 4. Practical examples of TGLF peer learning systems for WHO, Wellcome, UNICEF, and Bridges to Development that connect learning to change, results, and impact. 6. Emergent peer learning systems driven by local practitioner and community needs and priorities. Join this #TropMed23 Peer Learning symposium on Day 2 of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). #GlobalHealth #PeerLearning #SocialLearning #NetworkedLearning Some background reading… Pandemic preparedness through connected transnational digital networks of local actors https://redasadki.me/2022/10/13/epidemic-preparedness-through-connected-transnational-digital-networks-of-local-actors/ Reinventing the path from knowledge to action in global health https://redasadki.me/2022/10/12/reinventing-the-path-from-knowledge-to-action-in-global-health/ Metaphors of global health: jazz improvisation ensemble or classical orchestra? https://redasadki.me/2023/04/06/metaphors-of-global-health-jazz-improvisation-ensemble-or-classical-orchestra/ Credible knowers https://redasadki.me/2023/03/21/credible-knowers/ What is a “rubric” and why use rubrics in global health education? https://redasadki.me/2022/10/16/what-is-a-rubric-and-why-use-them-in-global-health-education/ Which is better for global health: online, blended, or face-to-face learning? https://redasadki.me/2022/09/29/which-is-better-for-global-health-online-blended-or-face-to-face-learning/
31 Jul 2023
Insights Live #7: Early learning on cholera, cervical cancer, humanitarian crises (Teach to Reach 8)
Insights Live #7: Early learning from Teach to Reach 8 on cholera, cervical cancer, humanitarian crises Join this new edition of Insights Live to discuss the experiences shared at Teach to Reach 8, the world’s largest networking event for health professionals held on June 16, 2023 with 16,835 participating. See the experiences shared ahead of Teach to Reach 8 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8074794 Request your invitation to the next edition of Teach to Reach: Connect https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach See all Teach to Reach lessons https://zenodo.org/communities/teachtoreach Topics explored at Teach to Reach 8 include: * Why do you work in healthcare? (479 contributions) * Vaccination in a humanitarian context (271 contributions) * Experiences with HPV vaccination (210 contributions) * Use of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) during cholera outbreaks (108 contributions) * The future of healthcare work (84 contributions) * How has your work been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic (42 contributions) * How experience sharing can help you in your day-to-day work (40 contributions) * What will help you build and maintain trust with the people you serve? (36 contributions) * How have digital technologies been integrated into your daily work? (35 contributions) Teach to Reach 8 aims to contribute to the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) and to the Manifesto for Global Health. Read and respond to the first open-source Manifesto for global health https://learningsi.notion.site/009-1-An-open-source-manifesto-for-global-health-version-1-0-f4f54a726e324659a416de63b5ae7511?pvs=4 Subscribe to the Geneva Learning Foundation Research Unit newsletter https://www.learning.foundation/loop
30 Jun 2023
Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH): 1st inter-country peer learning exchange (ZDLH-X)
Watch the first Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH) inter-country peer learning exchange, known as “ZDLH-X”. This event is one step in an ongoing peer learning initiative to mobilize the power of peer, networked learning: - Connect zero-dose practitioners to learn from each other - Invite global, regional, and country partners to listen, learn, and countribite Zero-dose practitioners from two countries, Bangladesh and Mali, are featured in this inaugural session recorded on 31 May 2023. 1,964 immunization staff registered from 84 countries to share experience of zero-dose. 89% of them work directly on zero-dose. 61% are sub-national staff. Case studies discussed include: 1. Case Study: Md Sorwer Alam (Male, District level, Bangladesh). Finding zero-dose and missed communities in Chattogram City Corporation 2. Case Study: Dr Fantamady Camara (Male, Region, UNICEF Mali). Finding zero-dose and missed communities. Community engagement in urban areas. 3. Case Study: Fousseyni Dembele (Male, Health facility, Mali). Finding zero-dose and missed communities in areas of insecurity. Community engagement in rural remote areas. What do we mean by “zero-dose”? Zero-dose, un-vaccinated/un-immunized, left-outs - General definition: communities, clusters, populations, or children who are persistently missed by immunization services - Gavi definition: children who don’t receive a single dose of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis-containing vaccine But…problems related to zero-dose are connected to problems of the under-vaccinated/under-immunized, the drop-outs, and the partially vaccinated…and the communities where they live. - In some places, there are more under-immunized than zero-dose children. - So, for today’s discussion, we are talking about ALL OF THE ABOVE. How to share your zero-dose experience? 1. What is the zero-dose situation where you work? How do you know? 2. What are you doing about it, why, and how? 3. How is it different from what you did before? 4. How has it turned out so far? 5. How do you know what you are doing is successful? Zero-dose practitioners reflected on two cross-cutting challenges. Challenge 1 What: Estimating the number of ZD and finding clusters of ZD and communities missed by immunization services Why: Understanding where and who are the persistently missed and under-immunized children/pregnant women & underserved communities, to adjust strategies to reach them. How: Tell us about your experiences with how you find and follow-up on ZD/missed communities, as well as why you know your approach is working; please be specific and provide step-by-step details without acronyms Challenge 2 What: Consistently engaging with communities Why: Understanding difficulties in reaching and fully vaccinating all children in urban poor as well as rural remote areas because of health services that are reaching people are not meeting people’s needs, migration/movement of people, mistrust, beliefs, and more. How: Tell us about your experiences with how you have engaged with communities and what has been the result in both urban and rural contexts; please be as specific as possible and provide step-by-step details without acronyms. Acknowledgements Bangladesh - Dr. S M Abdullah Al Murad, Program Manager-EPI and Member Secretary - Dr. Monjurul Islam Fuad, Deputy Program Manager, Field Service Mali - Dr Kalifa Keita, Directeur Général Adjoint de la Santé - Dr Fanta NIARE, Directeur du Centre d’apprentissage pour l’équité vaccinale (CAPEV) du Mali - Dr Ibrahima Diarra, Directeur du Centre national d’Immunisation (CNI) du Mali Gavi Country Learning Hub partners - Bangladesh: RedOrange, ICDDR,b, JHPIEGO - Mali: GaneshAID, CAPEV - Nigeria: AFENET - Uganda: IDRC, PATH, Makerere University School of Public Health The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) wishes to thank Gavi and JSI for their leadership of the Gavi Zero Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH).
31 Mar 2023
Insights Live #6: Learning about COVID-19 recovery, interpersonal communication, gender
Insights Live #6: Learning about COVID-19 recovery, interpersonal communication, and gender in the Movement for Immmunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) Insights Live is the Geneva Learning Foundation’s event series in which we share what we are learning through the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030), reaching, as of December 2022, over 48,000 health professionals. Become an Insights Member to receive the full slide deck synthesizing 1000+ insights on key topics https://www.learning.foundation/insights Request your invitation to Teach to Reach: Connect 8 https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach In this edition of Insights Live, we focus on what we learned during Teach to Reach: Connect 7, the world’s largest networking event for health professionals. UNICEF was the main global partner for this edition and contributed its Interpersonal Communication (IPC) Guide, which was sent to all registered participants. Women Who Deliver Vaccines, a self-organized collective of 143 health professionals from 38 countries, opened the event. Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/iwd Topics explored at Teach to Reach 7 include: 1. Interpersonal communication: What have you changed since 2020 in how you speak with caregivers and the community about vaccines? 2. Build back better: How are you responding and what support do you need as the COVID-19 pandemic fuels the largest continued backslide in vaccinations in three decades and 25 million infants missed out on lifesaving vaccines in 2021? 3. Gender: What actions are you taking as a man to support women who work in immunization and why? Teach to Reach 7’s overarching theme was to explore local practitioner responses to the continued “backsliding” in vaccination coverage reported by UNICEF and WHO in July 2022, beginning an exploration of what “build back better” means at the local level. Networking and plenary sessions had a particular focus on (1) use of the TGLF Ideas Engine, a repository of advice, ideas and practices provided by participants on the TGLF learning programme; (2) interpersonal communication and use of the UNICEF guide/toolkit; and (3) use of root cause analysis to identify underlying reasons for low coverage. Plenary sessions focused on: (1) sharing experiences in development and implementation of IA2030 Action Plans; (2) local challenges and building back better post-pandemic; and (3) the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. These themes, together with three guiding questions , provided a structure for peer learning, although participants remained free to discuss whatever they found meaningful in the main event networking activity which consists of a series of individual, private meetings (“speed dating”) with one other randomly-selected participant each other. 14,134 health professionals (7,667 anglophones and 6,467 francophones) participated asynchronously, receiving and responding to event resources such as slide decks, stories, and guidance. Over 2,400 watched the livestreamed plenary session on YouTube and other social media channels. 1240 participated in networking sessions: 759 English speakers, 418 French speakers, 53 bilinguals, and 10 global partners. As well as the experiences shared before and during the event itself, further information was gathered in post-event feedback, which was provided by 1,024 participants, with 584 of them additionally sharing a success story, lesson learned or challenge. Become an Insights Member to discover how ideas and practices are being shared across health system levels and geographic borders – and get access to the Ideas Engine for your own needs LEARN MORE ABOUT TGLF INSIGHTS https://www.learning.foundation/insights
30 Mar 2023
Insights Live #5: Learning about COVID-19 vaccination, gender barriers, and neglected diseases
Insights Live is the Geneva Learning Foundation’s event series in which we share what we are learning through the Foundation’s fast-growing global network reaching, as of July 2022, over 45,000 health professionals. Become an Insights Member to receive the full slide deck with 100+ insights on these topics https://www.learning.foundation/insights Request your invitation to Teach to Reach: Connect 7 https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach In this edition of Insights Live, we focus on what we learned during Teach to Reach: Connect 6, the world’s largest networking event for health professionals, about three key topics: 1. How we build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines 2. Listening and learning from the experience of women and men who are challenging gender barriers in immunization 3. Neglected needs of women’s health: Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) Become an Insights Member to discover how ideas and practices are being shared across health system levels and geographic borders – and get access to the Ideas Engine for your own needs https://www.learning.foundation/insights LEARN MORE ABOUT TGLF INSIGHTS We need fresh insights to support those leading change in districts, health facilities, and communities. As a global community, we recognize the significance of local action to achieve the global goals. “The lessons and learning are coming from people who are working in the community. That is where vaccination actually happens. We need to be focusing on the most local level of the immunization programme.” – Kate O'Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals (IVB), World Health Organization (WHO) WHY IS THE GENEVA LEARNING FOUNDATION SHARING INSIGHTS? The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) hosts the largest and fastest-growing community of national and sub-national immunization professionals, with over 40,000 active participants from over 120 countries, as of May 2021. 80% of members are sub-national immunization staff, with strong support and linkage to national teams. We realized that the valuable multi-country knowledge shared in our programmes should be regularly given back to the community, and that it could also inform our partners in identifying real-time priorities and opportunities and formulating strategies. The Insights Unit is the Foundation’s research and analysis group. We systematically consolidate and communicate the contributions of learners in the Foundation’s programmes to share back to participants, governments, civil society and development partners. To synthesize and spread insights, we work in partnership with Bridges to Development, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and other partners. Learn more about TGLF Insights https://www.learning.foundation/insights
30 Mar 2023
Insights Live #4: What we are learning from the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030
In this edition of Insights Live, we discuss: * Lessons learned from Teach to Reach: Connect 5 on how immunization staff are successfully challenging COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in districts and health facilities, why women’s leadership matters for immunization, and why motivation is key to performance Become an Insights Member to receive the full slide deck with 120 key insights on these topics https://www.learning.foundation/insights Request your invitation to Teach to Reach: Connect 6 (17 June 2022) https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach * IA2030 Ideas Engine: Immunization professionals from over 130 countries have contributed almost 1,000 ideas and practices to the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030’s Ideas Engine, a platform to collect and crowdsource local innovation. Become an Insights Member to discover how ideas and practices are being shared across health system levels and geographic borders – and get access to the Ideas Engine for your own needs https://www.learning.foundation/insights * What have we learned from situation analysis? Working together, over 600 Members of the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 developed context-specific analyses of their most difficult and important challenges. We will share some of the initial insights gained through this work led by over 6,000 Movement Members from 137 countries. LEARN MORE ABOUT TGLF INSIGHTS We need fresh insights to support those leading change in districts, health facilities, and communities. As a global community, we recognize the significance of local action to achieve the global goals. “The lessons and learning are coming from people who are working in the community. That is where vaccination actually happens. We need to be focusing on the most local level of the immunization programme.” – Kate O'Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals (IVB), World Health Organization (WHO) WHY IS THE GENEVA LEARNING FOUNDATION SHARING INSIGHTS? The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) hosts the largest and fastest-growing community of national and sub-national immunization professionals, with over 40,000 active participants from over 120 countries, as of May 2021. 80% of members are sub-national immunization staff, with strong support and linkage to national teams. We realized that the valuable multi-country knowledge shared in our programmes should be regularly given back to the community, and that it could also inform our partners in identifying real-time priorities and opportunities and formulating strategies. The Insights Unit is the Foundation’s research and analysis group. We systematically consolidate and communicate the contributions of learners in the Foundation’s programmes to share back to participants, governments, civil society and development partners. To synthesize and spread insights, we work in partnership with Bridges to Development, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and other partners. Learn more about TGLF Insights https://www.learning.foundation/insights
30 Mar 2023
#Insights Live 3: What we are learning from the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 #IA2030
Join us today for our third Insights Live session. What did we learn from Teach to Reach: Connect 4? As we count down to Teach to Reach: Connect 5 on 4 March 2022, we are pleased to share with you a selection of valuable insights, based on feedback from more than 1,600 participants of Teach to Reach: Connect 4. Topics we explored include: * Immunization and PHC as we catch-up on routine immunization * Challenging vaccine hesitancy in districts and health facilities * Health professional COVID-19 vaccination Specific sessions analyzed include: * IA2030 Consultation on safeguarding and strengthening essential immunization and primary health care during COVID 19 vaccine rollout * IA2030 Brainstorming to cocreate a common dialogue with participants on immunization programs for PHC and UHC * Immunization and PHC during rollout of COVID vaccine: can we do it all? Learn more & request your invitation https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach What are we learning from the applicants to the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030? As of this morning, 1993 francophones and 2,639 anglophones have joined the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030. More than 80 percent are sub-national staff working in districts and health facilities, and over half work for their Ministry of Health. Everyone who joins answered questions about their work and well-being, the most urgent challenge they face, and the support you need to tackle this challenge. We also asked you about the effect of the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine for routine immunization (RI) and primary health care (PHC) services where you work and about the strategies you are using to successfully reach unvaccinated or undervaccines “zero-dose” children and “missed” communities. Today, we share a quick overview of what we have learned from such a large number and diversity of inputs. WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? We need fresh insights to support those leading change in districts, health facilities, and communities. As a global community, we recognize the significance of local action to achieve the global goals. View our #Insights dialogue with Dr Kate O’Brien, Director of Immunization at the World Health Organization (WHO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCB20y49hBI&t=26s WHY IS THE GENEVA LEARNING FOUNDATION SHARING INSIGHTS? The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) hosts the largest and fastest-growing community of national and sub-national immunization professionals, with over 40,000 active participants from over 120 countries, as of May 2021. 80% of members are sub-national immunization staff, with strong support and linkage to national teams. We realized that the valuable multi-country knowledge shared in our programmes should be regularly given back to the community, and that it could also inform our partners in identifying real-time priorities and opportunities and formulating strategies. WHAT IS THE INSIGHTS UNIT? The Insights Unit is the Foundation’s research and analysis group. We systematically consolidate and communicate the contributions of learners in the Foundation’s programmes to share back to participants, governments, civil society and development partners. To synthesize and spread insights, we work in partnership with Bridges to Development, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and other partners. Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/insights
31 Mar 2022
#Insights: A lightning chat with Dr Kate O’Brien, WHO’s Director of Immunization.
Join us for a Lightning Chat with Dr Kate O’Brien, Director of Immunization at the World Health Organization (WHO). We will discuss the significance of insights and learning from the expertise and practice of staff working in health facilities and districts. Should global partners pay more attention, listen more intently… and, if so, how? Learn more about TGLF’s Insights https://www.learning.foundation/insights “The lessons and learning are coming from people who are working in the community. That is where vaccination actually happens. We need to be focusing on the most local level of the immunization programme.” – Kate O'Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals (IVB), World Health Organization (WHO) Watch the Teach to Reach interview with Kate O’Brien https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvv-g0lXy4c WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? We need fresh insights to support those leading change in districts, health facilities, and communities. As a global community, we recognize the significance of local action to achieve the global goals. WHY IS THE GENEVA LEARNING FOUNDATION SHARING INSIGHTS? The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) hosts the largest and fastest-growing community of national and sub-national immunization professionals, with over 40,000 active participants from over 120 countries, as of May 2021. 80% of members are sub-national immunization staff, with strong support and linkage to national teams. We realized that the valuable multi-country knowledge shared in our programmes should be regularly given back to the community, and that it could also inform our partners in identifying real-time priorities and opportunities and formulating strategies. The Insights Unit is the Foundation’s research and analysis group. We systematically consolidate and communicate the contributions of learners in the Foundation’s programmes to share back to participants, governments, civil society and development partners. To synthesize and spread insights, we work in partnership with Bridges to Development, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and other partners. Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/insights
30 Mar 2022
Insights from COVID-19 vaccine introduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Cameroon
In our first Insights LIVE, Dr Calvin Tonga shares key learning and insights from the first inter-country peer learning exchange between Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). At the request of national EPI authorities, the DRC team hosted colleagues from Cameroon in two sessions to share experience of COVID-19 vaccine introduction, with participants from all levels of the health system contributing. The Geneva Learning Foundation was honored to support the inter-country peer learning exchange organized through the leadership of Dr. Franck Monga, COVID-19 Scholar Peer Hub Team Leader for DRC, and Dr. Calvin Tonga, COVID-19 Team Leader for Cameroon. Almost 1,000 Alumni of the Foundation’s COVID-19 Peer Hub joined this peer learning exchange. Read more about the Geneva Learning Foundation’s unique approach Disseminating rapid learning about COVID-19 vaccine introduction https://redasadki.me/2021/03/28/disseminating-rapid-learning-about-covid-19-vaccine- View the first session of this inter-country peer learning exchange (in French) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzOL3s8MBdI View the full Insights Live #1 Event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZi93hF69ls LEARN MORE ABOUT TGLF INSIGHTS We need fresh insights to support those leading change in districts, health facilities, and communities. As a global community, we recognize the significance of local action to achieve the global goals. “The lessons and learning are coming from people who are working in the community. That is where vaccination actually happens. We need to be focusing on the most local level of the immunization programme.” – Kate O'Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals (IVB), World Health Organization (WHO) WHY IS THE GENEVA LEARNING FOUNDATION SHARING INSIGHTS? The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) hosts the largest and fastest-growing community of national and sub-national immunization professionals, with over 40,000 active participants from over 120 countries, as of May 2021. 80% of members are sub-national immunization staff, with strong support and linkage to national teams. We realized that the valuable multi-country knowledge shared in our programmes should be regularly given back to the community, and that it could also inform our partners in identifying real-time priorities and opportunities and formulating strategies. The Insights Unit is the Foundation’s research and analysis group. We systematically consolidate and communicate the contributions of learners in the Foundation’s programmes to share back to participants, governments, civil society and development partners. To synthesize and spread insights, we work in partnership with Bridges to Development, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and other partners. Learn more about TGLF Insights https://www.learning.foundation/insights
30 Mar 2022
Immunization Agenda 2030 Insights Live #1
Join Charlotte Mbuh and Ian Steed for a live update from the Geneva Learning Foundation’s new Insights Unit. We will discuss: 1. Key learning points from Teach to Reach: Connect, in which over 4,000 national and sub-national immunization staff discussed and explored leadership for Immunization Agenda 2030, vaccine equity, and innovation. 2. Gender: Three stories from immunization staff in India and Liberia about the gender barriers they face and what they are doing about them. 3. COVID-10 vaccine introduction: Fresh insights from the latest inter-country peer learning exchange between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Cameroon. Each of these items is the subject of a more detailed TGLF Insights brief. During this event, we will explain how interested parties can gain access to these insights and contribute their own. Learn more about TGLF’s Insights https://www.learning.foundation/insights WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? We need fresh insights to support those leading change in districts, health facilities, and communities. As a global community, we recognize the significance of local action to achieve the global goals. “The lessons and learning are coming from people who are working in the community. That is where vaccination actually happens. We need to be focusing on the most local level of the immunization programme.” – Kate O'Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals (IVB), World Health Organization (WHO) WHY IS THE GENEVA LEARNING FOUNDATION SHARING INSIGHTS? The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) hosts the largest and fastest-growing community of national and sub-national immunization professionals, with over 40,000 active participants from over 120 countries, as of May 2021. 80% of members are sub-national immunization staff, with strong support and linkage to national teams. We realized that the valuable multi-country knowledge shared in our programmes should be regularly given back to the community, and that it could also inform our partners in identifying real-time priorities and opportunities and formulating strategies. The Insights Unit is the Foundation’s research and analysis group. We systematically consolidate and communicate the contributions of learners in the Foundation’s programmes to share back to participants, governments, civil society and development partners. To synthesize and spread insights, we work in partnership with Bridges to Development, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and other partners.
30 Mar 2022
IA2030 Lighting Chat with Heidi Larson: How do we strengthen confidence in COVID-19 vaccination?
Are you involved in COVID-19 vaccination? Are you working to strengthen confidence in vaccines to improve vaccine uptake? At Teach to Reach: Connect 5 on March 4, 2022, over 8,500 national and sub-national immunization staff met to network and learn by sharing the strategies they have successfully used to strengthen confidence in COVID-19 vaccination. In today’s Lightning Chat, we discuss these locally-grounded strategies with Heidi Larson. Prof. Heidi J. Larson is an anthropologist and Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). What we learned about how to overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy https://youtu.be/K7HQJUBAng4?t=2220 Teach to Reach Dialogue: Challenging vaccine hesitancy in districts and health facilities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtGwmxEuWKg On 17th June at Teach to Reach Connect: 6, The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Insights Unit will launch the report: Overcoming barriers to vaccine acceptance in the community: Key learning from the experiences of 734 frontline health workers. Subscribe to TGLF’s Insight to receive selected excerpts as well as the full report https://www.learning.foundation/insights The report analyses 734 case studies developed by frontline health workers in November 2020 as part of the COVID-19 Peer Hub, a peer learning exercise led by The Geneva Learning Foundation. This Lightning Chat is, in a way, a follow-up to a workshop with Heidi Larson – a few months before COVID-19 vaccine began to reach countries in Africa – where she met Members of the COVID-19 Peer Hub who had just completed developing case studies of how they successfully overcame vaccine hesitancy. View the COVID-19 Peer Hub Vaccine Confidence Workshop with Heidi Larson (17 December 2020) https://youtu.be/-djx3tZnb7c?t=239 The Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) is conducting global studies to track public sentiment and emotions around current and potential measures to contain and treat COVID-19, as well as, more generally, exploring how to better understand and strengthen public trust. Many members of the COVID-19 Peer Hub are now active in the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030. Learn more about the Movement: https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030 Vaccine hesitancy: Testimonies and case studies from the COVID-19 Peer Hub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcntkdYTHL0 COVID-19 vaccine introduction: Q&A with Susan MacKay from GAVI about vaccine hesitancy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oMZQH9L_RM COVID-19 Peer Hub workshop with Lisa Menning (WHO): Exploring vaccine hesitancy and demand promotion https://youtu.be/UCBA_zuh88o?t=528
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