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Mobile Global Health and App-idemiology Supercourse. IEA meeting, Aug. 2011 Edinburgh Scotland.
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Mobile Global Health and App-idemiology Supercourse IEA meeting, Aug. 2011 Edinburgh Scotland
The objectives of the IEA are to: … Promote the communication of epidemiological methods and findings amongst epidemiologists throughout the world as well as amongst all others concerned with health. - - Improve the dissemination of epidemiological findings nationally and internationally. - Improve the recruitment, education and training of epidemiologists….
WHO Collaborating Center Janice Dorman, Ph.D.DirectorMolecular EpidemiologyRonald LaPorte, Ph.D.DirectorDisease Monitoring and Telecommunications
What do we need to improve global health? Effective Cheap Ubiquitous Acceptable Sustainable
Effective • Cheap • Ubiquitous • Acceptable • Sustainable Mobil Global Health App-idemiology
Open Source PowerPoint Lecture Library Continuous Quality Improvement Distribution System to Educators Supercourse Model Large Multidisciplinary Network
Network:46,000 in 172 countries 4855 Lectures
Global Training in Public Health Number trained/ year in SPHs <10,000 Supercourse trained last year = 6,000,000 H1N1 lecture = 50,000,000
nanos gigantum humeris insidentesStanding on the shoulders of Giants
For every Epidemiologist there are 240 Clinicians
For every epidemiologist there are 24 Morticians
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.
On the web What is the most important educational Technology of the 21st century?
Institute of Public Health Research Tehran University of Medical Sciences Disaster Supercourse Ali Ardalan For the Supercourse Team
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
Supercourse Mirror Sites Mirrored Servers in 86 countries Egypt, Mozambique, Iran, China, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Israel
Tipping Point People = Cells Numbers of People (billions)andNumbers of Cell Phones
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
There are 1.5 cell phones for every European • There is one cell phone for every 2.4 people in Africa • There are more cell phones then toothbrushes
Eugene Shubnikov, M.D. Russia Skype Snapshot
Reaching the unreached: Disabled
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/mobileGHScourse.htm
Directory of Apps for Global Health and Science http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/appsMobilePhones.htm
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
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
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
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
Library of Alexandria Scientific Supercourse
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