Science and the Supercourse

1. Science and the Supercourse

2. 60 Countries Albania, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Congo, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Ecuador, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Sudan, Somalia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, UAE, Ukraine, United States, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam

3. WHO Collaborating Center Janice Dorman, Ph.D.DirectorMolecular EpidemiologyRonald LaPorte, Ph.D.DirectorDisease Monitoring and Telecommunications

4. Gil Omenn Former President AAAS Ismail Serageldan, Director Library of Alexandria Vint Cerf, Father of Internet

5. Tipping Point: 1 Health

6. Global Health, Tipping point = 1949 <1949 Time Frame 500,000 years Gain in Life Expectancy 20 years 1 year gain in life expectancy took 25,000 years >1949 Time Frame 60 years Gain in Life Expectancy 25 years 1 year gain in life expectancy took .4 years Obama 2009 Truman 1949 Neanderthal 500,000 BC

7. Tipping Point: 2 Internet

9. Tipping Point: 3 PowerPoint

10. PowerPoint • 1988 0 PowerPoint lectures • 2001 10,950,000,000 lectures

11. Global Health PowerPoint Internet

12. For every Epidemiologist there are 240 Clinicians

14. Open Source PowerPoint Lecture Library Continuous Quality Improvement Distribution System to Educators Supercourse Model Large Multidisciplinary Network

15. Nicogossian Cummings Casas NASA PAHOly San Fran. Kebebe Cauley MOH Ethiopia Sudan Human Networks Pittsburgh

16. Empowering Educators world wide with state of the art lecture content

17. University of Khartoum, Sudan Last Biomedical Journal 1990 Cuttington University, Liberia

18. Question: How can we improve science education worldwide? Answer: Get better lectures

19. But how do I get better lectures? Why don’t scientists share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?

20. Global Health Network 56,000 Faculty 9500 Universities 174 Countries

21. Supercourse Mirror Sites 42 Mirror Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia, Russia

22. www.supercourse.cn 140 Chinese Medical Students

23. FSUSupercourse - 2008 • All 15 Former Soviet Union Countries • More than 250 lectures in Russian language • 600 active members of the network • Russian language web site –www.supercourse.pochta.ru

24. Indian Supercourse Network 6,735 faculty members More than 200 lectures on topics of interest to teachers of Public Health in India Mita Lovalekar, MBBS, MPH is the coordinator of the Indian Supercourse Network.

26. Lectures 3455

28. Tipping Point: 3 Supercourse

29. Growth of Faculty: Tipping Point

30. Growth of Lectures

31. 1000 Lectures Sent to 10,000 prevention experts in 139 Countries Access to 100,000-1,000,000

32. Non-Supercourse training = 5,000 Supercourse Trainees = 1,000,000 Global Training in Public Health

33. WHO-NCD Supercourse Certificate

34. OIC-Supercourse at the Library of Alexandria

35. 1338 OIC members in the Supercourse team from 48 countries

36. 75 million hits/year 125 publications (including Science, BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med) Top 11 Medical Pages Lancet Best of the Web Science Mag. Top 100 PC Magazine

37. Page Rankings Global Health Lectures 1 & 2/27,200,000 Epidemiology lectures 1 & 2/2,150,000 Physical Activity Epidemiology, 1 & 2/714,000

38. Scouting and the Supercourse

39. Scouting Supercourse Arab Scouting Supercourse Network Arabic Translation Sharing Knowledge Scouting Supercourse Dr. Atif Abelmageed

40. Library of Alexandria Scientific Supercourse

41. Institute of Public Health Research Tehran University of Medical Sciences Disaster Supercourse Ali Ardalan, M.D. For the Supercourse Team

42. Disaster situation in the globe • Each year, one out of five countries faces a major crisis, from both developed & developing Source: CRED. 2007 disasters in number

43. Just-in-time (JIT) education: Basic concept & Goal • The nature of disasters draws public attention! Larger events mean larger interest. • JIT educational strategy seizes the opportunity of public interest to teach andfind national and global expertise in hazards and risk information. • Although it can be applied by any means of communication, the Internet is an efficient approach to provide educators with scholarly, user-friendly, low-cost, and online-offline training materials.

44. JIT Supercourse lectures: Internet-based rapid onset educational system • Hurricane: • Katrina • Gustav • Tsunami: • South Asia • Earthquake: • Bam • Pakistan • Indonesia • China Mostly translated to Spanish, Chinese and Arabic

45. Supercourse & Health Diplomacy Dr. Margaret Chan: “Public health always wants a peaceful way forward. This is diplomacy” • The Supercourse network is our diplomacy to gather public health scientists and professional from all corners of the globe together, from both developed and developing countries. • We are practicing the diplomacy in a healthy way to educate people on global health!

46. Jesse Faina Soni Ron Mita Ala Ala Ardaldin Iran Sunita Dodani US/Pakistan Jesse Hung China Ronald LaPorte US Mita Lovalekar US/India Faina Linkov US/Ukraine Nicholas Padilla Mexico Rania Saad Egypt Francois Sauer US Eugene Shubnikov Russia Rania Nicholas Francois Eugene

47. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

48. Thank You www.pitt.edu/~super1/