FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GENEVA, 8 APRIL 2025 – The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) and Menoglobal are launching “Beyond the hot flash: a primer for health workers about menopause.” This is, to our knowledge, the first global peer learning course on menopause designed for health workers at every level and in every country. Menoglobal, the leading […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GENEVA, 8 APRIL 2025 – The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) and Menoglobal are launching “Beyond the hot flash: a primer for health workers about menopause.”
This is, to our knowledge, the first global peer learning course on menopause designed for health workers at every level and in every country. Menoglobal, the leading international organization dedicated to making menopause a global health priority, and The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), which connects over 70,000 health practitioners across 137 countries through peer learning, developed this course together.
It combines women-centered expertise with a proven peer learning model that reaches community-based health workers where they are.
This course is where that strategy meets practice: health workers in every country, learning from each other, building the evidence from the ground up.
Menopause is experienced differently across countries, cultures, and economic settings.
A nurse in Nigeria, a pharmacist in Germany, and a community health worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo all encounter menopausal women, but the symptoms they see, the language women use, and the resources available to them are completely different.
No textbook can capture that diversity.
But a structured exchange between health workers from different contexts can.
When a midwife in Cameroon reads what a general practitioner in France wrote about her patients and then shares what she sees in her own practice, both gain knowledge that neither could get from a training manual.
This is what makes peer learning uniquely suited to menopause.
The clinical evidence is important, and the course provides basic knowledge you can use: the STRAW+10 staging framework, genitourinary syndrome of menopause (which does not improve with time but gets worse), cardiovascular and bone health risks, mental health impacts, and the social determinants that cause some women to experience menopause earlier and more severely than others.
But the lived experience of health workers and the women they serve is what is missing from the global picture.
It is what the WHO does not yet have visibility into.
And it is what this course is designed to surface.
Enrollment is free and open now. Register here.
Menoglobal is the leading organization dedicated to elevating menopause as a global health priority. This expert group promotes evidence-based research, partners with organizations to build culturally relevant menopause training and resources to support women and caregivers, and advises countries and corporations on best practices to policy development. Through this pathway, Menoglobal is building the capacity needed to close the gap between what women experience and what systems provide. Fueled by researchers, advocates, and every woman who refused to stay silent, Menoglobal is built on the belief that visibility sparks change—and embedding it requires collective action. Learn more at menoglobal.org.
The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is a Swiss foundation that connects over 70,000 health practitioners across 137 countries through peer learning. Over a decade, TGLF has built a distinctive model that values the knowledge of community-based health workers as a primary resource and produces implementation rates seven times higher than conventional training at a fraction of the cost. TGLF measures impact through a five-dimension value creation framework with a global baseline of over 10,000 participants. The Foundation believes that the people closest to the communities they serve hold the knowledge the world needs. Learn more at www.learning.foundation.
Menoglobal: Shuba Visweswaran, shubav@menoglobal.org
The Geneva Learning Foundation: Charlotte Mbuh, charlotte@learning.foundation
