The Geneva Learning Foundation just announced Joseph Wato as its first Fellow for the transformation of global health. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/07/08/joseph-wato-appointed-first-tglf-fellow-for-the-transformation-of-global-health/
"You go to Geneva. You sit in all these meetings. How does that help me?"
A mother asked Wato this directly in a village in Cameroon, looking him in the eye.
He did not deflect the question.
He has spent his entire career building the answer.
Wato holds, simultaneously, a board seat at two of the most consequential financing institutions in global health and the daily practice of working with the communities those institutions are meant to serve.
Between 2015 and 2017, he supervised community health workers in Cameroon under a malaria Global Fund grant.
He went into the field with them, and found families where a child was running a fever and there was no money for transport to a clinic ten kilometers away.
By 2020, he had joined the Develo
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