The Geneva Learning Foundation

Are you facing a learning, leadership, or impact challenge? Listen in on the Foundation’s first invitation-only Clubhouse chat.

Karen Watkins and I will be chatting about the Foundation’s unique approach to this tryptic of learning, leadership, and impact in the Digital Age. It will be informal in ways intended to provoke incidental learning. No stilted panel, rigid agenda, or dull slides. That’s a promise.

We will be sharing some of the insights we gained about resilience during the first year of COVID-19, learning from the Foundation’s immunization programme that connected thousands of health professionals during the early days of the pandemic.

And, most important, we are opening it up so that you can share your real-world challenges, successes, and lessons learned.

Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/dialogue

It's D-Day!

Join us for the opening ceremony to get a full understanding of how Teach to Reach: Connect will work, meet the country teams, Teach to Reach Council members, and international partners involved.

Then, join Teach to Reach: Connect at any time during one of three one-hour sessions.

Networking Session 1: Introduction of COVID-19 vaccine.

Networking Session 2: How to improve immunization training.

Networking Session 3: Reaching ‘zero-dose’ children who have not received a dose.

Each session has a suggested theme, but you are free to discuss any issue related to your immunization work.

Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

Onboarding briefing: WHO Scholar Level 1 course on radiation risk communication to improve benefit-risk dialogue in paediatric imaging

Join course participants who are onboarding this week in the WHO Scholar Level 1 course on radiation risk communication to improve benefit-risk dialogue in paediatric imaging

This course is intended for health care providers (in-service) as well as medical and dental students (pre-service).

You are welcome to join this onboarding briefing, even if your application was not selected by WHO or you did not apply.

Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/paediatric-radiation-risk-event

Learn about one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health issues in sub-Saharan Africa

Are you aware of FGS, one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health issues in sub-Saharan Africa?

The suffering of women and girls due to Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) can be reduced and even avoided.

Whether you are a health professional working in a schistosomiasis endemic country in sub-Saharan Africa or a global health professional concerned about women’s health, you can make a difference.

As part of the FGS Accelerated Scale Together (FAST) project, Bridges to Development, working in partnership with the Geneva Learning Foundation, invites applications for the Scholar Level 1 Workshop for Improved Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS).

Request the application via this link:

https://www.learning.foundation/female-genital-schistosomiasis

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 9 April 2021

Health professionals from Ghana and Madagascar are especially encouraged to apply. You do not need to have prior experience with FGS in order to participate in this workshop. Only selected applicants will receive a Letter of Acceptance by e-mail.

Please review the announcement carefully before you decide to apply

Update from The Geneva Learning Foundation: Immunization Agenda 2030, Teach to Reach: Connect, and COVID-19 vaccine introduction

Are you national or sub-national immunization staff?

Join Charlotte Mbuh and Reda Sadki on Friday for a 15-minute Lightning Chat to:

1) learn more about what the Immunization Agenda 2030 might mean for you

2) discover an amazing new way to connect with immunization colleagues from all over the world

3) hear about challenges being faced in the field of COVID-19 vaccine introduction – and how your colleagues are overcoming them

IMMUNIZATION AGENDA 2030

Immunization is one of the best health investments money can buy.

Yet despite tremendous progress, far too many people around the world – including nearly 20 million infants each year – have insufficient access to vaccines.

To address these challenges over the next decade, a new global vision and strategy titled ‘Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind (IA2030)’ has been endorsed by the World Health Assembly.

If you have not yet heard of Immunization Agenda 2030, you will soon.

On Monday, 8 March 2021, the world will be celebrating the International Women’s Day (IWD) under the theme: 'Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.'

For the first time, we are convening women who are leading the COVID-19 Peer Hub and the Teach to Reach global community for action, when the world's countries are introducing COVID-19 vaccine.

Join us to honor the women on the frontlines who continue to work tirelessly to maintain immunization services within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, support the vaccine rollout, and pursue efforts to reach the 20 million children who remain at risk from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Special Event: Radiation risk communication to improve benefit-risk dialogue in paediatric imaging

Join Dr María del Rosario Perez from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Dr Don Frush from Image Gently to explore the issues covered in the WHO Scholar Level 1 course on radiation risk communication.

Participants in this Special Event organized by The Geneva Learning Foundation will receive the WHO guidance document “Communicating radiation risks in paediatric imaging: Information to support healthcare discussions about benefit and risk”.

Register here for the Special Event

https://www.learning.foundation/paediatric-radiation-risk-event

This Special Event is offered ahead of the World Health Organization's pilot Scholar Level 1 course on communicating radiation risks in paediatric imaging.

The course is primarily targeted at health-care providers who refer pediatric patients for radiological imaging OR who perform radiological imaging in paediatric patients.

Medical and dental school students, as well as those belonging to other academic and research institutions, may also apply.

Learn more about the course

https://www.learning.foundation/who-pediatric-radiation-communication

Join immunization staff from all over the world for a 15-minute launch event for the Teach to Reach global community of action.

1. Demonstration of the Teach to Reach global community of action and tutorial to access and use this brand-new digital community platform.

2. Presentation of the Certificates of Attendance for the Teach to Reach Accelerator Conference (26-28 January 2021). (Certificates wil be sent by e-mail after the launch event)

3. Share your feedback and ask your questions about the Teach to Reach programme.

Mass Vaccination Campaigns: Reaching the Zero-Dose Child

Join Ian Steed and Reda Sadki from The Geneva Learning Foundation in conversation with Simon Mutembo.

In May 2020, Simon Mutembo of the Macha Research Trust in Zambia was awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations grant to develop a method to identify and map children who have never received vaccinations so that they can be targeted during mass vaccination campaigns.

Many of these children live in remote areas and are missed by population estimates. Mutembo’s method combines field work by community health workers with spatial intelligence using a geospatial application on smart phones to develop geographical maps of vaccination coverage at the household level.

Households with low or no vaccinations can then be targeted directly by campaign health workers. They tested their approach using a non-randomized controlled before and after study associated with planned measles and rubella mass vaccination campaigns in 14 areas in Zambia.

This innovative method was to provide a more reliable measure of vaccination coverage. Find out today how it turned out – and let us know if such innovation could help you where you work.

Join Charlotte Mbuh and Reda Sadki today to get the latest news and updates from The Geneva Learning Foundation.

The Teach to Reach Accelerator global community of action is launching this Friday. Find out more about this special event and how it can help you to improve your immunization training efforts. (Also, get the update on certificates of attendance for those who participated in the Teach to Reach Accelerator conference.)

Get the update on COVID-19 vaccine introduction, including new resources from the World Health Organization to support countries. Find out how to become a Member of the COVID-19 Peer Hub in 2021.

New courses and programmes: You may be surprised to discover that of the two new courses launching in March, neither of them is about immunization… Join us to learn more about our latest learning opportunities.