The Journey Begins

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The Journey Begins
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From CHAOS
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Is the world becoming healthier? Yes?
(Raise your hand)
AIDs,Global Warming,Suicide,Stomach CA,War
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Raise you hand if you that you believe (vote
more than once)

• I want to make my patients healthy
• I want to make Japan healthy
• I want to make the world health
• Let them all die

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Baron Takaki
Finding Answers globally to help locally
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Clinicians, Global Health, Prevention, Telecommuni
cations
Winds of Change
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In the Beginningthere wasType I Diabetes
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Incidence/100,000 Japan and US
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16,000 New Cases
At Japanese rate 800 Cases
Prevention of 98
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WHO DiaMond Project
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Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine
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WHO DiaMond ProjectWHO Multinational Project for
Childhood DiabetesWHO Diabetes Mondiale

• 155 Centers
• 70 Countries
• 7.2 of the Worlds Children

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Janice Dorman, Ph.D.DirectorMolecular
EpidemiologyRonald LaPorte, Ph.D.DirectorDisea
se Monitoring and Telecommunications
WHO Collaborating Center
GSPH
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What is the best route to improve health in
Pakistan, Japan, Nauru, Congo, the US and the
world?
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Improving Global Health
Effective Ubiquitous Cheap Effective Sustainable
Prevention Knowledge
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Telepreventive Medicine
Using cheap Internet approaches to reach large
numbers of healthy people to prevent disease
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Global Health Network
Network everyone in prevention world wide
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Shrinking of the world
The Death of Distance
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Shrinking of the world
Learning from Kobe, San Francisco, Indonesia and
Bam
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SARS
Canada
Japan
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Global Aging
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McDonalds Globalization
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2007 A GLOBAL HEALTH ODYSSEY
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Prevention
Is Information Sharing
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Japanese Life expectancy since 1800
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Japan citizens have increased Life expectancy
more in the Past 50 years than they have in the
previous 500
For every week since 1947, Japanese
citizens have gained 3 days of life expectancy
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Life Expectancy of Japanese Women
2120 The crane lives for 1,000 years, and turtle
for 10,000 years.
Japanese women live 100,000 yrs
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Global Health/ Prevention Really, Really Boring
Feel the Passion of Prevention
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Your Generation
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Your Generation
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• Takaki believed that medicine was "a practical
  knowledge above all, it is for the prevention
  and treatment of illness."

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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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Education is the most powerful weapon which you
can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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Human Networks
Japan
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Question
How can we improve Global Health education
worldwide?
Answer
Get better lectures
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But how do I get better lectures?
Why dont scientists share our most exciting
PowerPoint lectures for free?
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Importance of Good Materials
Which do you like better?
A
B
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Supercourse Improving

• Quality of Materials
• Preparation Time
• Speed of Translation from Research to classroom

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• 16th International Diabetes Federation Congress.
  Helsinki, Finland, 20-25 July 1997.

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Supercourse

• Language of Science
• Helping Teachers
• Globalization
• Library of Lectures
• Supply Chain of Lectures

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What is the global language of research and
teaching?
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What wiped out the lectures?
Dust to Dust
Linus Pauling Lecture
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What wiped out the lectures?
Dust to Dust
Linus Pauling Lecture
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1950-2000 50,625,000,000
Scholarly Lectures Died and were lost to Eternity
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Pauling Lectures saved on PowerPoint
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Helping Teachers
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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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Library of Lectures
Faculty can choose 1-4000 PowerPoint
lectures Assisting the Teacher
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Globalization
42,000 Faculty 174 Countries 299 from Japan
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Lectures
3238
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Mirrored Server
Lahore, Pakistan
Pittsburgh
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Supercourse Mirror Sites
42 Mirrored Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China,
Mongolia, Russia
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1000 Lectures Sent to 10,000 prevention experts
in 139 Countries
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Klaus von Klitzing
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Douglas D. Osheroff
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Robert f. Engle
George a. Olah
Sir Paul Nurse
Wolfgang Ketterle
Anthony Leggett
Edmond Fischer
Roy Glauber
Alexei Abrikosov
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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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• 75 million hits/year
• 170 publications
• (including BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med)

magazine
Top 100
PC Magazine
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Future

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Pakistan
Public Health/ Teleprevention
620 Members Pakistani Supercourse
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Russian Federation Population (1980-2000)
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• We have created a Russian Supercourse, which
  networks now about 500 scientists among all
  Former Soviet Union countries and have more than
  200 Public health lectures available.

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We may use YouTube too!
Health indices for FSU
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www.supercourse.cn
China Supercourse
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Just-in-Time Lectures
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Just-in-Time Lectures
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Eric Noji, M.D. CDC
Bam Earthquake in Iran
Ali Aldadan, M.D. Tehran, Iran
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Ali Aldadan, M.D.
120 countries 200,000 students
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NIH Supercourse
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Supercourse of Science
Supercourse of Global Health 4000 Lectures
Supercourse of Science 400,000 Lectures
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Saving Knowledge
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Global Knowledge Sharing
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Global Health Contest
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WorldSupercourse Global Health Contest

• 30 Second Broadcast about Global Health
• Can be sad, can be funny
• Cannot be political, religious or bad taste
• All students after High School Eligible
• Due Date Halloween, Oct. 31, 2007
• 2,000 first prize, 500 Second, 3 third prizes
  at 200

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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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Telepreventive Medicine
www.pitt.edu/super1/
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The Journey Ends