Winds of Change

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Winds of Change
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Global Health Network
Network of networks of international health
collaborations
Marrying IT and Global Health
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How can we best improve Global Health?
Prevention Knowledge

• Prevent Multiple diseases
• Apply in many places world wide
• Proven Effectiveness
• Cheap
• Sustainable

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you
can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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If Cars Developed as Same Pace as IT

• 100,000 km/hr
• 250,000 km/liter
• Cost 5.00

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Global Health Network
Network everyone in prevention world wide
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www.pitt.edu/super1/
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Building a NATO Supercourse
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Question
How can we improve Prevention education worldwide?
Answer
Get better lectures
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What is the global language of research,
technology, business and teaching?
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Helping Teachers
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Global Health Network
29,000 Faculty 151 Countries
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Who will template lectures help?

• Experienced teachers
• New Educators

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Last Biomedical Journal 1990
Cuttington University, Liberia
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Lectures
2252
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Magnet Lectures
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Nobel Prize Laureates in the Supercourse
(Medicine)
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Cost Effectiveness
20,000 students x 5 yrs. 100,000 students
trained 1000/100,000
0.01/Student
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NATO Supercourse
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Reaching the Unreached
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Mirrored Server
Lahore, Pakistan
Pittsburgh
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Supercourse Mirror Sites
45 Mirrored Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, Mongolia, UK
China, Russia
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1000 Lectures Sent to 10,000 prevention experts
in 139 Countries
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• 75 million hits/year
• 170 publications
• (including 40 in BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature
  Med, PNAS)

Top 100 PC Magazine
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Global Interdisciplinary Networked Health
Workforce
Demographers
Geneticists
Administrators
Public health specialists
Behavioral Scientists
Psychologists
Engineers
Clinicians
Chronic Disease Specialists
epidemiologists
Geneticists
Dentists
IT Experts
Agriculture
Environmental Scientists
Nurses
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Global Health is Knowledge
www.pitt.edu/super1/
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SupercourseDevelopers
Ron LaPorte, USA Akira Sekikawa Japan EunRyoung
Sa Korea Mita Lovalekar India Benjamin
Acosta Mexico Eugene Shubnikov Russia Rania
Saad Egypt Beatriz Rodriquiz Mexico Faina
Linkov USA/Ukraine Soni Dodoni Pakistan Abed
Husseini Palestine
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www.pitt.edu/super1/
New Yorker 2001