Diabetes and the Internet

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Diabetes and the Internet
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Cambridge 1983
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Cambridge Diabetes Epidemiology Course July, 1999
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Thinking out of the box
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Global Health Network
Network Everyone in Prevention
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2009 A HEALTH ODYSSEY
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(No Transcript)
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Prevention
Is Information Sharing
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WHO DIAMOND Project
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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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Pittsburgh GHNet
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Global Health Network Home Page
Top 100
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Experienced Teachers
Chronic Disease Epidemiology Lecture
5 Epidemiology of Gestational Diabetes
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Last Biomedical Journal 1980
Cuttington University, Liberia
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What makes good teachingof Diabetes Epidemiology?
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Importance of Good Content
Which do you like better?
A
B
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SHAREWARE Open Souce
Faculty sharing their most exciting, passionate
lectures
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Epidemiology/Prevention is Really,
Really Boring!!!
Feel the Passion of Prevention
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Supercourse Mantra
Death to Who Ate the Potato Salad Lectures
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Crossing the Digital Divide
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Mirrored Server
BA Egypt
Pittsburgh
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Reaching the last mile about Diabetes, the 97
not connected
CONCEPT

• Internet as backbone
• CDs and Floppy Discs to reach the many computers
  not connected
• Print, word of mouth, slides to reach the last
  mile

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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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Supercourse Diabetes Lectures
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The Future
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Circle of Learning
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Globalization of Diabetes Epidemiology?
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The Promise of Health in 2009
Marriage of Internet and Prevention
Supercourse
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The Idea is Everything
Victor Hugo, 1893
Net
Diabetes Epidemiology
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GHNet-SupercourseDevelopers

• Ron LaPorte
• Akira Sekikawa
• EunRyoung Sa
• Benjamin Acosta
• Deborah Aaron
• Thomas Songer
• Beatriz Rico Verdin
• Fan Zhou
• Faina Linkov
• Eugene Shubnicovich

Ron
Akira
Deb
EunRyoung
Tom
Benjamin
Eugene
Beatriz
Fan
Faina
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Feel the Josh
...the atmosphere created Supercourse is like
a movement or a crusade, and I admire what we in
India call the "josh"enthusiasm, devotion,
dedication, sheer enjoyment all these are
included inthe term. Arvind Dayal