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Telepreventive Medicine

This article discusses the use of low bandwidth internet to reach a large number of healthy individuals and prevent diseases. It emphasizes the collaboration between the WHO and the Telepreventive Medicine Center in developing innovative strategies for global disease prevention.

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Telepreventive Medicine

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  1. Telepreventive Medicine Using low bandwidth Internet to inexpensively reach large numbers of healthy people to prevent disease

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

  3. Faina Mita Ron Rania Eugene Soni Akira Tomoko Eunryoung Abed Supercourse Core

  4. If Cars Developed as Same Pace as IT 100,000 mile/hr 250,000 mile/gallon Cost = $5.00

  5. Powerof the Internet Arena LaPorte Urra NCI Cuba Uni Pgh Kebebe MOH Ethiopia Sudan Human Network Collective Intelligence World Bank

  6. Powerof the Internet High Tech High Touch

  7. Improved Manufacturing and Distribution of Lectures www.pitt.edu/~super1/

  8. Language of Science Teacher Resource Global course Library of Lectures Quality Assurance Mirroring Supercourse

  9. What is the new global language of science?

  10. Teacher Resource

  11. Who will better lectures help? • Experienced teachers • New Educators

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

  13. Question: How can we improve Prevention education worldwide? Answer: Get better lectures

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

  15. Global Health Network 15,000 Faculty 151 Countries

  16. Cuba 138 Brazil 135 Argentina 95 Peru 94 Columbia 68 Mexico 59 Chile 24 Venezuela 22 Jamaica 6 Guatemala 6 Bolivia 5 Bahamas 4 Honduras 3 West Indies 3 Haiti 2 Guyana 2 St Lucia 1 N= 731

  17. W. Edwards Deming The Man Who Discovered Quality

  18. Reaching the unreached What % of people in the world has access to the Internet? 7%

  19. Mirrored Server Cairo, Egypt Pittsburgh

  20. Supercourse Mirror Sites 42 Mirrored Sites, MOH India, Egypt, Mongolia, Nepal, Sudan, China, Russia

  21. 1000 Lectures Sent to 10,000 prevention experts in 139 Countries Access to 100,000-1,000,000

  22. Future Directions Server Development of new information distribution systems in collaboration with Pitt Supercomputer Center Server to Cell phone/PDA to School TV Cell phone School TV

  23. Reaching the unreached Shouldn’t the disabled have equal access to science? Should those who primary language is Spanish, or Portuguese have equal access to science?

  24. Lecture Status 1770 Lectures

  25. Gunter Blobel(1999) Joshua Lederberg(1958) Baruch S. Blumberg(1976) Nobel Prize Laureates in the Supercourse (Medicine) Eric R. Kandel (2000) Paul C Lauterbur (2003) Paul Greengard (2000)

  26. Teaching/ Mentoring Epidemiologic Research Circle of Learning

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