Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research's self-paced free online public health course for anyone interested in people’s health

14 January, 2026

Dear HIFA colleagues,

I’m pleased to share about our Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research's self-paced free online public health course for anyone interested in people’s health. This can be shared in your newsletter/website.

Free online public health course (one hour) Cancer in the context of Universal Health Coverage with a mandatory registration and a certificate (no fee) after completion of the course, a short assignment, and an MCQ test (before and after the course). https://lnkd.in/d9MGqysz

Best wishes

Dr Meena Nathan Cherian, MBBS, MD (Anaesthesia)

(Former WHO Lead Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Program, Geneva, Switzerland).

Director, Global Health New Challenges:online courses, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education & Research (GFMER), Switzerland. www.gfmer.ch/surgery/cancer.htm

Senior Advisor, Global Action, International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG). Permanent Committees - SIOG

Adjunct Prof.The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shenzhen,China. https://med.cuhk.edu.cn/en/teacher/371

WHO-HIFA Working Group on Essential Health Services,COVID-19,Learning for Quality Health Services; mHEALTH-INNOVATE. www.hifa.org

Geneva, Switzerland. +41 763837253(m); cherianm15@gmail.com

HIFA profile: Dr Meena Nathan Cherian was a professor of anaesthesiology from Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India. She trained, worked, and taught in several countries, USA (Johns Hopkins Hospital), Southeast Asia and Africa. She worked at the World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, as the Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Program Lead where she created the ‘surgical care’ program resulting in the first World Health Assembly Resolution on ‘Emergency and Essential Surgical Care and Anaesthesia in the context of Universal Health Coverage’. Currently she works as the Director, Global Health New Challenges program, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Geneva, Switzerland; Adjunct Prof. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China; Senior Advisor, Global Action, International Society of Geriatric Oncology, Switzerland; Member of the WHO-HIFA Working Group on Essential Health Services and COVID-19; and HIFA mHEALTH-INNOVATE Working Group. She is a member of the HIFA Steering Group. https://www.hifa.org/support/members/meena cherianm15 AT gmail.com

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Meena Nathan Cherian