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Supercourse Update. 2014. Creating networks, Improving training, Empowering Teachers and Increasing Number and Quality of Publications. Global Supercourse Network Members. WHO DIAMOND PROJECT. Supercourse Projects. Health Supercourse Supercourse Mirrors Science Supercourse
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Supercourse Update. 2014. Creating networks, Improving training, Empowering Teachers and Increasing Number and Quality of Publications Global Supercourse Network Members
Supercourse Projects • Health Supercourse • Supercourse Mirrors • Science Supercourse • BA Super Help Desk • Research Methods Supercourse • Central Asian Journal of Global Health
Supercourse Statistics In 2013 year Supercourse lectures got 88,495 Unique Pageviews from 190 countries
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO) Definition of Health in 80 languages - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/What%20is%20Health.htm
H1N1 lecture • Lecture in 24 hours • Translated in 3 days to 13 languages include Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew • Reached 40 million(Chinese TV) • Became trusted source • Leading H1N1 lecture on web
SUPERCOURSE -global library of PowerPoint lectures on prevention and public health, shared for free by the best faculty members in the world. Scientific Writing for Epidemiology Course by Paul Siegel http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/collections/collection12.htm Course and we found, that for Janaury 1, 2013 to January 29, 2014 this page got 234 visits with a 115 unique visitors. Lectures at this Course got following number of unique visits for same period Successful Scientific Writing. The ABSTRACT. Part I - 118 Successful Scientific Writing. The ABSTRACT. Part II - 48 Successful Scientific Writing. The DISCUSSION. - 60 Successful Scientific Writing. The INTRODUCTION. - 57 Successful Scientific Writing. The METHODS. - 53 Successful Scientific Writing. The PUBLICATION PROCESS. - 44 Successful Scientific Writing. The RESULTS. - 46 Successful Scientific Writing. The TITLE - 46 It seams Paul teached at least a class in 2013!
25 formal developersOver 56,000 participants 55 mirror servers174 countriesNobel Prize laureates, former head of CDC, former heads of NIH among authors.Over 5670 lectures by more than 1530 authors available at www.pitt.edu/~super1
Ismail Serageldin Ronald LaPorte Gilbert Omenn Vinton Cerf Francois Sauer Faina Linkov Magdy Nagy Noha Adly Mohamed El Faham
BA Science Supercourse Statistics of visits and hits for 2012 • Visits: 284,398Visits occur when some remote site makes a request for a page on your server for the first time. As long as the same site keeps making requests within a given timeout period, they will all be considered part of the same Visit. If the site makes a request to your server, and the length of time since the last request is greater than the specified timeout period (default is 30 minutes), a new Visit is started and counted, and the sequence repeats. Since only pages will trigger a visit, remotes sites that link to graphic and other non- page URLs will not be counted in the visit totals, reducing the number of false visits. • Hits: 10,349,576Hits represent the total number of requests made to the server during the given time period (month, day, hour etc..).
Brilliant scientific Idea How do I test it? Global BA Supercourse Help Desk for Research design help
Problem: Barriers to developing and publish scientific discoveries locally and globally
Stataphobia: Fear of research design and statistics and lack of access to statistical help. Cure: Library of Alexandria SuperHelp Desk Ask a questions! - http://ssc.bibalex.org/helpdesk/questions.jsf
The components of the BA help desk are: • Overviewof the concepts of Quantitative research (Ismail Serageldin) • 14 common statistical issues simply explained (e.g. bias, significance testing, etc) see below. • "BA Supercourse Help Desk" You can post questions to be answered by experts usingsupercourse.helpdesk.bibalex.org • Research Methods Supercourse: We have collected over 1000 PowerPoint lectures from Experts an many different facets of research design • Survey Portal: We have identified top quality surveys on Smoking, Physical Activity, already, in 7-8 languages with 500,000 research methods apps
5. Survey Portal Improve your research methods! Welcome to BA Super Help Desk – http://ssc.bibalex.org/home/list.jsf
First Stats for the help desk pages for June 2013 Page Name Views Introduction 1,477 Questions 388 Examples 28
BA Super Help Desk Statistics of Questions, Answers and Visits
Data for 2014 • In Jan there were 994, February 1673, and Mar 2800 (est). • During the first 3 months therefore there were 7185 unique visitors. If we take an average per month, this would be 1388, and this would come out to 28,700 for 2014. • However, there has been a 2.8 increase per month during this period, if this continues to rise we would see close to 450,000 unique visitors.
Surveys Portal at Help Desk • Tobacco Questions for SurveysA subset of key questions from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)2nd edition with versions in ArabicChineseEnglishFrenchPortugueseRussianSpanish • Global Physical Activity Surveillance with versions in ArabicChineseEnglishFrenchGermanItalianRussianSpanish
Help your self: One stop shop for Research Methods free books, apps, youtube presentations. Also >500 research methods Powerpoint lectures many translated into languages other than English http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ResearchMethods/index.htm. If you would like a free copy of the research methods site write to Super1@pitt.edu
Central Asian Journal of Global Health Online journal designed to empower scientists in Central Asia to publish the results of their research
Publish in CAJGH - http://cajgh.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cajgh
Solution to Scientific Productivity ?Central Asian Journal of Global HealthThe Central Asian Journal of Global Health (CAJGH) aims to create a forum for publishing scientific work where established researchers can share their knowledge on cutting edge questions as well as foster a supportive environment for new investigators and those who have never published in an English language journal.Vision: CAJGH as a pillar of translating Kazakhstan and Central Asian Research from Labs to Classrooms
Logo • Public health-John Snow’s pump • Medicine-The rod of Asclepius • Biomedical engineering-double helix
Mission The Central Asian Journal of Global Health (CAJGH) aims to create a forum for publishing scientific work where established researchers can share their knowledge on cutting edge questions as well as foster a supportive environment for new investigators and those who have never published in an English language journal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PULfDUKrHQ0
CAJGH achievements • 3 issues published • Networking scientists in Central Asia and around the world • Support from Nazarbayev University/Kazakhstan government • Network of close to 2000 scientists • Collaboration with ministries and unversities
BA Research Library (BARL) Directors: Ismail Serageldin, Ronald LaPorte Developers: Eman Eltahlawy, Faina Linkov, Francois Sauer, Eugene Shubnikov (Supercourse) Magdy Nagy, Youssef Salah, Kamal Micheal, Marwa Elwakil, Yosra Alaa (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)