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Winds of Change

Prepared for the Asia Pacific Health Forum (APHF 2005) Supercourse and Disaster Management Training Nov. 22, 2005 Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D. Professor of Epidemiology University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15090 USA. Winds of Change. GSPH Uni. of Pittsburgh. Top 50 in the Past 50 year

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Winds of Change

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  1. Prepared for the Asia Pacific Health Forum (APHF 2005) Supercourse and Disaster Management Training Nov. 22, 2005 Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D. Professor of Epidemiology University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15090 USA Winds of Change

  2. GSPH Uni. of Pittsburgh Top 50 in the Past 50 year Wen-Ta Chiu, M.D., DrPH

  3. Global Health Network Connect Everyone in Prevention

  4. African Connectivity 1995 2005 5Countries AllCountries

  5. 1/13

  6. What are the characteristics of factors that could improve global health? • Prevent Multiple diseases • Apply in many places world wide • Proven Effectiveness • Cheap, Cheap, Cheap • Sustainable Prevention Knowledge

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

  8. What is the new global language of research and teaching?

  9. www.pitt.edu/~super1/ Largest Global Prevention Project?

  10. Supercourse Core Faina Mita Ron Eunryoung Eugene Soni Akira Abed Monica Ezzeldeen Rania

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

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

  13. Global Health Network 30,000 Faculty 151 Countries

  14. Comparing Supercourse, WHO and CDC

  15. 2384

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

  17. Teacher Resource

  18. Cost Effectiveness 20,000 students x 5 yrs. 100,000 students trained $1000/100,000 $0.01/Student

  19. 75 million hits/year 150 publications on IT ~300 International publications (including 32 in BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med, PNAS) Top 11 Medical Pages Lancet Top 100 PC Magazine

  20. Just-in-Time Lectures

  21. Supercourse Format PowerPoint .pdf Web Cast Web Archive Web Download Pod Cast

  22. Katrina April 29

  23. April 30 Just-in-Time Lecture What is a Hurricane RITA

  24. Rita Prodrome: forewarning symptom: a symptom indicating the onset of a disease

  25. Sept. 25 Sept. 20 5-day Prodrome

  26. Rita Prodrome • Sept. 21 Email to all 300 GHNet people TX • Sept. 22 Steve Warren Dist lecture to all schools 6-16 in Texas and all Epidemiologist • Sept. 22 talking with head Allegheny County Intermediate Unit, Email to all schools in Pennsylvania, and 42 State Education Departments.

  27. One segment which I feel we need to reach out first, are schools all over Pakistan but particularly in cities like Lahore and Islamabad who experienced earthquake but fortunately escaped with out major damage. These young minds are also affected by the stories of hundreds of young students who have lost their lives in other areas. We look forward to your help in this regard. Khawar  

  28. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.FDR, 1937 Fears are educated into us & can, if we wish, be educated out. — Karl A. Menninger

  29. JIT Pakistan Disaster Lecture Distribution Network Distribute lectures throughout Pakistan US AID

  30. http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec21431/index.htm

  31. Supercourse Members South East Asia Bangladesh 14 Myanmar 7 Cambodia 6 Afghanistan 5 Mongolia 4 Fiji Island 3 Papua NG 2 Tonga 2 Bhutan 1 Laos 1 Samoa 1 Solomon Is. 1 Taiwan 224 Australia 196 Japan 163 China 124 Malaysia 59 Thailand 57 South Korea 44 Indonesia 38 Singapore 21 Philippines 19 Nepal 16 New Zealand 24 Vietnam 15 Sri Lanka 15 Total = 1063

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