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As of Monday 25 January, more than 6,000 national and sub-national participants had registered for the Teach to Reach Accelerator Conference. No travel or per diem needed. The recruitment is being led by an enthusiastic, diligent, organizing committee of 282 Alumni volunteers from 35 countries of the Teach to Reach programme.

Register now for the Teach to Reach Conference Accelerator (26-28 January 2021)

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

Since July 2020, the Centre for Change and Complexity (C3L) for Learning has been cooperating with the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) to support the "learning analytics" of the COVID-19 Peer Hub. The Peer Hub is a digital network of more than 26,000 immunization professionals collaborating to keep vaccination services going during the pandemic.

On Tuesday 26 January 2021, C3L's George Siemens, Vitomir Kovanovic, and Sasha Poquet will join the Teach to Reach Accelerator Conference, the world's largest international gathering of immunization professionals dedicated to learning, leadership, and innovation – at the precise moment when every country is facing the ultimate complex challenge of preparing to introduce or is already rolling out COVID-19 vaccine.

Register now for the Teach to Reach Conference Accelerator (26-28 January 2021)

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

Teach to Reach: Interview with Violaine Mitchell, Director of Health Funds and Partnerships at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Already, more than 5,000 national and sub-national participants had registered for the Teach to Reach Accelerator Conference. No travel or per diem needed. The recruitment is being led by an enthusiastic, diligent, organizing committee of 282 Alumni volunteers from 35 countries of the Teach to Reach programme.

Register now for the Teach to Reach Conference Accelerator (26-28 January 2021)

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

Teach to Reach: Interview with Dr Kate O'Brien, Director of Immunization at the World Health Organization

As of Monday 18 January, more than 4,226 national and sub-national participants had registered for the Teach to Reach Accelerator Conference. No travel or per diem needed. The recruitment is being led by an enthusiastic, diligent, organizing committee of 282 Alumni volunteers from 35 countries of the Teach to Reach programme.

Register now for the Teach to Reach Conference Accelerator (26-28 January 2021)

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

8 days left until the Teach to Reach Accelerator Conference (26-28 January 2021)

TODAY Watch the second of three rehearsals ahead of the Teach to Reach Conference.

Listen to immunization staff from all over the world who are preparing for his conference, which will explore what immunization staff need to learn and how we need to change to get COVID-19 vaccine to new target groups, at speed.

The 282 Members of the Organizing Committee from 35 countries, as well as some of the Conference Partners, have already tested the conference in a rehearsal that took place last Monday.

Today, participants will be invited to join the conference platform for the second Rehearsal, to meet other participants and help test the conference platform.

EXTENDED DEADLINE TO REGISTER

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

Sharath Srinavasan is co-founder of Africa Voices and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Africa Voices focuses on putting the voices of citizens at the heart of the African Continent’s transformation.

In order to provide those responding to COVID19 in Somalia with a snapshot of how the people of Somalia were thinking in the early days of the epidemic, Africa Voices asked 51,000 listeners of its established multimedia interactive platform called Imaqal (‘listen to me’).

Join our dialogue with Sharath Srinavasan to hear how it turned out.

The Teach to Reach Innovation Dialogue showcase innovations for routine immunization. It brings together global innovators with national and sub-national immunization professionals to share ideas and forge new relationships.

Join the Teach to Reach Accelerator Conference to learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

Author or co-author of 6 books, over 80 articles, and numerous book chapters, Karen Watkins's scholarly interests include incidental learning, action science, and organizational learning assessment. With Victora Marsick, they developed and validated an instrument to measure learning culture and performance.

Karen helped found The Geneva Learning Foundation in 2016, guiding the development of its immunization programme. In 2019, she performed the first evaluation of the programme, providing evidence to support the invention of the Impact Accelerator, a radically-new method to lead and measure change.

In this interview, she will share the key insights about learning that has underpinned the Foundation's execution of the idea that education, at its best, is a powerful philosophy for change in the Digital Age.

15 days left until the Teach to Reach Accelerator Conference (26-28 January 2020)

TODAY Watch the first of three rehearsals ahead of the Teach to Reach Conference.

Listen to immunization staff from all over the world who are preparing for his conference, which will explore what immunization staff need to learn and how we need to change to get COVID-19 vaccine to new target groups, at speed.

The 282 Members of the Organizing Committee from 35 countries, as well as some of the Conference Partners, will be present.

Next Monday, on 18 January 2021, participants will be invited to join the conference platform for the second Rehearsal, to meet other participants and help test the conference platform.

EXTENDED DEADLINE TO REGISTER

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

What is the Teach to Reach Accelerator conference?

COVID-19 vaccine introduction may be the most complex learning challenge the immunization community has faced.

The Teach to Reach Conference (26-28 January 2021) will explore what immunization staff need to learn and how we need to change to get new vaccines to new target groups at speed.

Alongside the urgency of “learning to learn” during the pandemic, this Conference aims to contribute to the change that is needed to make learning and leadership a “best buy” for both donors and countries and a key driver for innovation that will propel immunization staff on their way to achieving the global goals.

Who is organizing this conference?

This event, hosted by The Geneva Learning Foundation with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is being curated by an organizing committee of 282 country-based immunization professionals who completed the Teach to Reach Scholar programme in 2020.

Country teams from the COVID-19 Peer Hub will be sharing what they have learned during the pandemic and how they are preparing for COVID-19 vaccine introduction.

D-22 COVID-19 vaccine introduction: Teach to Reach Conference Countdown

More than 2,000 immunization staff have already registered for the Teach to Reach Accelerator Conference hosted by The Geneva Learning Foundation.

Join today's Teach to Reach countdown livestream to learn:

- How this conference can help you get ready for COVID-19 vaccine introduction

- How to secure your seat at the Conference

- How to connect with other Teach to Reach participants from your country and from the global partners

We will also preview preliminary results from the COVID-19 Pulse survey and the Peer Hub's peer learning exercise focused on vaccine hesitancy.

- What we learned about responding vaccine hesitancy from the experience of 700 immunization staff

- What has changed during the pandemic in the last six months – and how immunization staff have adapted

- How frontline health workers can share what they learn – and what difference it makes

- How we can scale up training health workers rapidly and effectively

Join us for a four-part miniseries with the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC).

In each Live Learning Moment, we will start with a Q&A focused on a specific aspect of serosurveys. Participants will be invited to submit questions in the comments for consideration by the experts from IVAC.

Serosurveys are studies that test body fluids, most commonly blood but also oral fluid, to estimate what proportion of the population has been vaccinated against or previously infected with a pathogen—and how many people remain susceptible.

This series is organized by The Geneva Learning Foundation in collaboration with the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

More information: https://www.learning.foundation/serosurveys-event