#climate_and_health

#climate_change and #health : how to apply for #Nexa’s #funding
▻https://redasadki.me/2026/07/06/climate-change-and-health-how-to-apply-for-nexas-funding

Climate change is harming the health of the communities you serve. Nexa is a new funding programme that aims to invest money in local solutions to that harm. This guide helps you decide, quickly, whether to apply, what Nexa wants to fund, and how the process works. It is written for a community-based leader who […]

#The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation #Africa #climate_and_health #community_health #Grand_Challenges_Canada #health_equity #health_workers #local_action #resources #Science_for_Africa_Foundation #Teach_to_Reach

#climate_and_health: #Reda_Sadki’s remarks at the #Nexa funding announcement in support of local community responses
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The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Reda Sadki spoke on the expert panel at the launch of the Nexa funding announcement in London on 21 June 2026, in conversation with panelists Dr Devotha Nyambo of the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania, Dr Claude Pirmez of Fiocruz in Brazil. The panel was moderated […]

#The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation #climate_change #Global_Climate_Change_and_Health_Survey #grand_challenges #Grand_Challenges_Canada #health_workers #Johanna_Sanchez #Karlee_Silver #local_action #London_Climate_Week #Science_for_Africa_Foundation #Teach_to_Reach

#climate_change and health: from flood to funder and from rhetoric to action
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The #London_Climate_Week launch on 21 June 2026 of a new call from global partners turned three years of listening to community-based #health_workers into money on the table. What the room did not decide is whether the money will reach them the same way the listening did. In Fada, Burkina Faso, what happens […]

#The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation #climate_and_health #frontline_health_workers #grand_challenges #health_worker_voices #local_action #Nexa #Reda_Sadki #Science_for_Africa_Foundation #Teach_to_Reach

#climate_and_health: seven quotes from global leaders putting money on the table for local communities
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On 21 June 2026, #grand_challenges Canada and #Science_for_Africa_Foundation convened a global consortium of partners to London. Together, they announced a new call to “invest in bold, locally led solutions that help health systems anticipate and respond to climate-driven health threats”. Here are seven notable quotes we wrote down during the event. […]

#The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation #climate_change #health_workers #local_action #London_Climate_Week #Nexa #Reda_Sadki #Teach_to_Reach

Lessons in resilience: what #health_workers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America know and do in response to worsening #climate_change impacts on their communities
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Between July 2023 and June 2026, a nascent global community of health and humanitarian workers connected to learn from and support each other. Working with #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation (TGLF), they built something that does not yet have a settled name in #global_health: a way to treat the observations of community-based health workers as […]

#Certificate_peer_learning_programme_for_leadership_in_climate_change_and_health #climate_and_health #climate_change_and_health #climate_crisis #community_health #COP28 #epistemic_justice #health_equity #health_systems #local_knowledge #peer_learning #Teach_to_Reach

#climate_change_and_health: 14 #recommendations for health workers, national planners, and global partners
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This article presents 14 practical recommendations for action on climate change and health. The recommendations are grounded in the experiences shared by thousands of health workers and documented in the Teach to Reach 11 report “Local action to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis on health” The recommendations below are what we conclude when […]

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World #malaria Day: what #frontline_health_workers are saying about malaria, and why it matters
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The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is pleased to announce ‘Malaria: Turning the Tide’, the first #peer_learning course by and for #health_workers. Learn more about the course… Enroll now in English or French. This article is based on experiences shared by health workers during the live event ‘Malaria: Turning the Tide’ on 23 April […]

#The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation #climate_and_health #Community_Health_Workers #data_quality_and_use #health_workforce #immunization #insights_report #knowing-in-action #Malaria:_Turning_the_Tide #peer_learning_course #vaccination #WHO #World_Malaria_Day

The future of work: remarks at the #9th_1M1B_Impact_Summit held at the United Nations in Geneva
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On November 7, 2025, Reda Sadki, Executive Director of The Geneva Learning Foundation, joined the panel “The Future of Work: AI and Green Skills” at the 9th 1M1B Impact Summit held at the United Nations in Geneva. Moderated by Elizabeth Saunders, the discussion explored the rapid redefinition of the workforce by #Artificial_intelligence and the green transition. The following is an edited transcript of Mr. Sadki’s remarks. Living with #Artificial_Intelligence Moderator: You have just seen some of these really incredible changemaker ideas and so what skills and mindsets stood out to you and how do you think those can be scaled to build a workforce that is living with AI and not competing with it? That is a wonderful question. I would answer that the key skill is learning to work with (...)

#Global_health #climate_and_health #global_health #gree_skills #peer_learning #youth

Health at #COP29: Workforce crisis meets climate crisis
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/11/18/health-at-cop29-workforce-crisis-meets-climate-crisis

Health workers are already being transformed by climate change. COP29 stakeholders can either support this transformation to strengthen health systems, or risk watching the health workforce collapse under mounting pressures. The #World_Health_Organization’s “COP29 Special Report on Climate Change and Health: Health is the Argument for #climate_action“ highlights the health sector’s role in climate action. Health professionals are eyewitnesses and first responders to climate impacts on people and communities firsthand – from escalating respiratory diseases to spreading infections and increasing humanitarian disasters. The report positions #health_workers as “trusted members of society” who are “uniquely positioned” to champion climate action. The context is stark: WHO projects a global shortage of (...)

#Global_health #climate_and_health #COP29_Special_Report_on_Climate_Change_and_Health:_Health_is_the_Argument_for_Climate_Action #HRH #leadership #local_action #Maria_Neira #resilience

#Critical_evidence_gaps_in_the_Lancet_Countdown_on_health_and_climate_change
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The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change “reveals the health threats of climate change have reached record-breaking levels” and provides “the most up-to-date assessment of the links between health and climate change”. Yet its treatment of #experiential_knowledge – particularly the direct observations and understanding developed by frontline health workers and communities – reveals both progress and persistent gaps in how major #Global_health assessments value different forms of knowing. The fundamental tension appears right at the start. The report notes a significant challenge: “A global scarcity of internationally standardised data hinders the capacity to optimally monitor the observed health impacts of climate change and evaluate the health-protective effect of (...)

#climate_and_health #COP29 #epistemology #Indigenous_knowledge #local_knowledge #quantitative_data

Strengthening #primary_health_care in a changing climate
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A new article by #Andy_Haines, #Elizabeth_Wambui_Kimani-Murage, and #Anya_Gopfert, “Strengthening primary health care in a changing climate,” outlines how climate change is already impacting health systems worldwide, with primary health care (PHC) workers bearing the immediate burden of response. Haines and colleagues make a compelling case for strengthening primary health care (PHC) as a cornerstone of climate-resilient health systems. First, they note that approximately 90% of essential universal health coverage interventions are delivered through #PHC settings, making these facilities and workers the backbone of healthcare delivery. This is particularly significant because PHC systems address many of the health outcomes most affected by climate change, including non-communicable (...)

#Global_health #climate_and_health #epistemology #global_health #health_workforce #Human_resources_for_health #phronesis #situated_knowledge

Anecdote or #lived_experience: reimagining knowledge for climate-resilient health systems
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A health worker in rural Kenya notices that malaria cases are appearing earlier in the season than usual. A nurse in Bangladesh observes that certain neighborhoods are experiencing more heat-related illnesses despite similar temperatures. These observations often remain trapped in the realm of “anecdotal evidence.” The dominant epistemological framework in public health traditionally dismisses such knowledge as unreliable, subjective, and of limited scientific value. This dismissal stems from a deeply-rooted #Global_health paradigm that privileges quantitative data, randomized controlled trials, and statistical significance over the nuanced, contextual understanding that emerges from direct experience. The phrase “it’s just anecdotal” has become a subtle but powerful way of delegitimizing (...)

#anecdotes #climate_and_health #climate_change #Donald_Schön #epidemiology #epistemology #James_Scott #knowing-in-action #mētis #peer_learning

Honoring #health_professionals as leaders of change
▻https://redasadki.me/2023/07/24/honoring-health-professionals-as-leaders-of-change

We honor everyone who is joining the Special Event “From community to planet: Health professionals on the frontlines of climate change”: health staff from immunization and other areas of health – environmental health and One Health, but also those who fight neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), HIV, and other ailments. We also honor allies, including human rights advocates, those working to decolonize #Global_health, fighting for gender and racial equity as well as economic justice. Since 2016, the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) has supported a global #peer_learning network and platform, built by and for immunization staff from all over the world. This is because we believe that practitioner-led peer education is a powerful philosophy for change in the Digital Age. In 2020, when the (...)

#climate_and_health #IA2030 #leadership