SCIENTIFIC NETWORKING AND THE GLOBAL HEALTH SUPERCOURSE FOR THE PREVENTION OF THREAT FROM MAN MADE AND NATURAL DISASTERS

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SCIENTIFIC NETWORKING AND THE GLOBAL HEALTH
SUPERCOURSE FOR THE PREVENTION OF THREAT FROM MAN
MADE AND NATURAL DISASTERS
Kaunas, Lithuania, August 2005
Faina Linkov, PhD Postdoctoral Research
Associate Graduate School of Public Health,
University of Pittsburgh
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• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is
  an alliance of 26 countries from North America
  and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of
  the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949.
  In accordance with the Treaty, the fundamental
  role of NATO is to safeguard the freedom and
  security of its member countries by political and
  military means. NATO is playing an increasingly
  important role in crisis management and
  peacekeeping.

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Supercourse in NATO countries and Specialized
Supercourses Opportunities for Collaboration
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Kiev, Ukraine
Very special welcome to Boris, Natalia and
Natalia!!!!
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My journey of quality control dissertation work
and beyond

• 384-322 BCE-Aristotle and the birth of peer
  review
• 19th century birth of quality control
  discipline
• 1950 - W. Edwards Deming and statistical quality
  control
• 1970s- Total Quality Management (TQM)
• 2005 Quality on the Epidemiological / disaster
  lectures on the Internet

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What brings us here today?Biological Weapon
Production Facilities in the Former Soviet Union
From lecture 700 by Igor Linkov(
http//www.pitt.edu/super1/lecture/lec7001/001.ht
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Supercourse and disaster epidemiology lectures
from US, Cuba, Iran, and Latin America, and Japan
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Supercourse participants in NATO countries

• NATO countries over 8000
• NATO partner countries- over 200
• Mediterranean dialogue countries-over 100

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Our aim bridging the gap between academic
epidemiologists and disaster educators/community
practitioners locally and in the developing world
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From Papyrus to PowerPoint Evolution of Disaster
Information Communications

• 200 BC Papyrus

1500 AD Paper and Printed Books
1995 Electronic Books
August 8, 2005 PowerPoint-information sharing is
now easy
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What are we capturing now and what do we want to
capture in the future?
Collaboration
Prevention
Mitigation
Networking
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Globalization of Information Sharing Modern
Technologies
A Research Conducted for the NATO Advanced
Research Workshop, Lithuania, 2005
By Rania A. Azmi
rania0azmi_at_yahoo.com

• Globalization of Information Sharing
• Technology and E-Science
• Implications Recommendations

Presentation Content
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Globalization of Information Sharing

• It is important to note that globalization has
  led to rapid information sharing between
  countries.
• As research becomes increasingly global, there is
  a growing need to address information access and
  sharing issues.
• Access and sharing of information are essential
  for the conduct and advancement of science.
• Research data and information should be openly
  available to the maximum extent possible.
• The sharing of information involves providing
  specific access, whereas the act of providing
  access by itself does not necessarily involve any
  sharing arrangement.
• Technological collaboration is perhaps the most
  striking feature of globalization.

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Technology E-Science

• Information Communication Technologies (ICTs)
  are rapidly transforming the world of research.
• Science depends on free access to information and
  exchange of ideas.
• E-science defined as increased access via the
  Internet to distributed resources and to global
  collaboration.
• Open access
• E-Science Digital output of
  scientific research
• High speed computer networks grew to connect
  larger and larger numbers of researchers.
• The use of collaborative technologies to support
  geographically distributed scientific research or
  collaboration is accepted widely in many parts of
  the world.

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Implications Recommendations

• The process of globalization modern
  technological innovation appear to be reinforcing
  each other.
• Decreased information sharing could impede the
  systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge.
• Supercourse is a successful demonstration of
  information sharing and e-science.
• For example, supercourse development in Egypt
  characterized by increased awareness among
  individuals and institutions, and increased
  lectures together with establishing a mirror site
  for easier access sharing of information
  through Supercourse in Egypt.
• There are important recommendations regarding
• Multi-disciplinary Collaboration
• Training Education
• RD

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Specialized SupercoursesNetworks and lecture
libraries within the parent Supercourse
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Former Soviet Union (FSU) Supercourse

• FSU network has 550 participants from all of the
  15 FSU countries.
• 15 health profiles
• 260 lectures

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Islamic Supercourse

• Abdullatif Husseini MS MPH PhD
• Over 100 members
• 10 lectures

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Pakistani network

• 620 members
• 97 lectures

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Indian Heritage Network

• Indian network 500 members and 76 lectures
• Headed by Mita Lovalekar

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Global Pit and Global NATO SupercourseAct
locally, Think globally
Network of international health collaborations