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Advancing Global Health through Mobile Technologies

Explore the impactful use of mobile technologies in improving global health. Discover educational resources, networks, and collaborations that are driving positive change worldwide. Join the movement towards a healthier future today!

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Advancing Global Health through Mobile Technologies

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  1. Global Health, so Far, so Near Internet, Mobile Global Health Supercourse

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

  3. What do we need to improve global health? Effective Cheap Ubiquitous Acceptable Sustainable

  4. Effective • Cheap • Ubiquitous • Acceptable • Sustainable Internet Mobil Global Health

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

  6. Network:46,000 in 172 countries 4802 Lectures

  7. Global Training in Public Health Number trained/ year in SPHs <10,000 Supercourse trained last year = 6,000,000 H1N1 lecture = 50,000,000

  8. 3183 Supercourse Faculty in Europe Albania 2 Andorra 1 Armenia 8 Belarus 7 Belgium 35 Bosnia & Herzovina 3 Bulgaria 19 Croatia 18 Cyprus 5 Czech Rep. 20 Denmark 38 Estonia 5 Finland 42 France 124 Georgia 23 Germany 179 Greece 15 Hungary 11 Iceland 6 Ireland 30 Italy 103 Latvia 7 Liechtenstein 2 Luxembourg 49 Macedonia 20 Malta 3 Moldavia 9 Netherlands 383 Norway 89 Poland 96 Portugal 38 Romania 36 Russia 110 Scotland 10 Serbia 2 Slovak Rep. 7 Slovakia 3 Slovenia 6 Spain 195 Sweden 278 Switzerland 117 Turkey 38 Ukraine 38 UK 873 Vatican City 1

  9. nanos gigantum humeris insidentesStanding on the shoulders of Giants

  10. Medical Schools Public Health Nursing Agriculture Ministries of Health National Libraries MOH Mexico LaPlata Cambridge Tokyo U. Theran U JHU Chenni Uni South Carolina Beijing Moscow State.

  11. On the web What is the most important educational Technology of the 21st century?

  12. Institute of Public Health Research Tehran University of Medical Sciences Disaster Supercourse Ali Ardalan For the Supercourse Team

  13. H1N1 lecture • Lecture in 24 hours • Translated in 3 days to 11 • languages include Arabic, • Farsi and Hebrew • Reached 50 million • Became trusted source • Leading H1N1 lecture on web

  14. Japan JIT Lectures in 10 hrs, Translated Into Japanese and 11 other languages Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear lectures First Scientific lecture on disaster Leading Japan Disaster lecture

  15. Supercourse Mirror Sites Mirrored Servers in 80 countries Egypt, Mozambique, Iran, China, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Israel

  16. Mobile Global Health

  17. Mobile-Global Health = Reaching of Billions of people world wide to improve Global health and prevention using Mobile technology, and education Mobile Global Health Supercourse

  18. There are 1.5 cell phones for every European • There is one cell phone for every 2.4 people in Africa • In 2 years the number of cell phones will equal the number of people. • There are more cell phones then toothbrushes

  19. Eugene Shubnikov, M.D. Russia Skype Snapshot

  20. Mobile Global Health

  21. Mobile Global Health

  22. http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/mobileGHScourse.htm

  23. Directory of Apps for Global Health and Science http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/appsMobilePhones.htm

  24. Api-demiology EPIDEMIOLOGY.url Apple App Store Downloads on iTunes-- Medical - A thru Z.url http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios-medical/id6020?mt=8&letter=E&page=1#page e.g. Epidemic: the Past, Present and Future of the Diseases that Made Us Epidemiology and Biostatistics Epidemiology Glossary EpidemRisk Epidemiology and Biostatistics - iPhone Apps Plus.url iPhone Apps - Epidemiology and Biostatistics.url Top 25 BlackBerry Apps for Public Health Professionals.url Top 25 Google Android Apps for Public Health Professionals.url 50 Excellent Public Health Web Sites Worth Bookmarking.url Department of Health and Human Services releases first Public Health app for patients iMedicalApps.url Ushahidi apps uses Crowdmapping to collect instant public health data iMedicalApps.url Public Health News for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store.url Track bed bugs with new iPhone app   ajc.com.url 5-Minute Colon Test Slashes Deaths - Courant.com.url

  25. Mobile Global Health Components • Supercourse App, lecture to Mobile and world • Mobile-Global Surveillance • I-Phones and Pico Projectors • Expert Knowledge Reachback • Global Telehouse Inspection • Supercourse-Media link • Teaching the world about global health • JIT Disaster Knowledge • Academic-Industry partnerships • Global Surveys

  26. Jesse Faina Soni Ali Mita Kawkab Ron Ali Ardaldin Iran Sunita Dodani US/Pakistan Jesse Hung China Ronald LaPorte US Mita Lovalekar US/India Faina Linkov US/Ukraine Eric Marler US Nicholas Padilla Mexico Kawkab Shishani Jordan Francois Sauer US Eugene Shubnikov Russia Nicholas Eric Eugene Francois

  27. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela Mobile-Global health education may be the most important weapon you can use to change the health of the world

  28. Thank You www.pitt.edu/~super1/ super1@Pitt.edu

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