Science and the Supercourse

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Science and the Supercourse
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60 Countries
Albania, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas
Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, China, Congo, Croatia, Denmark,
Egypt, Ecuador, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana,
India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea,
Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico,
Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Sudan, Somalia, South
Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Trinidad and
Tobago, UAE, Ukraine, United States, Ukraine,
United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam
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Janice Dorman, Ph.D.DirectorMolecular
EpidemiologyRonald LaPorte, Ph.D.DirectorDisea
se Monitoring and Telecommunications
WHO Collaborating Center
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Gil Omenn Former President AAAS
Ismail Serageldan, Director Library of Alexandria
Vint Cerf, Father of Internet
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Tipping Point 1
Health
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Global Health, Tipping point 1949
lt1949 Time Frame 500,000 years Gain in Life
Expectancy 20 years 1 year gain in life
expectancy took 25,000 years
gt1949 Time Frame 60 years Gain in Life
Expectancy 25 years 1 year gain in life
expectancy took .4 years
Obama 2009
Truman 1949
Neanderthal 500,000 BC
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Tipping Point 2
Internet
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Tipping Point 3
PowerPoint
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PowerPoint

• 1988 0 PowerPoint lectures
• 2001 10,950,000,000 lectures

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Global Health
PowerPoint
Internet
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For every Epidemiologist there are 240 Clinicians
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Supercourse Model
Large Multidisciplinary Network
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Human Networks
Pittsburgh
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Empowering Educators world wide with state of the
art lecture content
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Last Biomedical Journal 1990
Cuttington University, Liberia
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Question
How can we improve science 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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Global Health Network
56,000 Faculty 9500 Universities 174
Countries
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Supercourse Mirror Sites
42 Mirror Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China,
Mongolia, Russia
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www.supercourse.cn
140 Chinese Medical Students
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FSU Supercourse - 2008

• All 15 Former Soviet Union Countries
• More than 250 lectures in Russian language
• 600 active members of the network
• Russian language web site www.supercourse.pochta
  .ru

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Indian Supercourse Network

• 6,735 faculty members
• More than 200 lectures on topics of interest to
  teachers of Public Health in India

Mita Lovalekar, MBBS, MPH is the coordinator of
the Indian Supercourse Network.
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Lectures
3455
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Tipping Point 3
Supercourse
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Growth of Faculty Tipping Point
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Growth of Lectures
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1000 Lectures Sent to 10,000 prevention experts
in 139 Countries
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Global Training in Public Health
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WHO-NCD Supercourse Certificate
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OIC-Supercourse at the Library of Alexandria
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1338 OIC members in the Supercourse team from 48
countries
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• 75 million hits/year
• 125 publications
• (including Science, BMJ, Lancet, Nature,
  Nature Med)

Best of the Web Science Mag. Top 100 PC Magazine
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Page Rankings

• Global Health Lectures 1 2/27,200,000
• Epidemiology lectures 1 2/2,150,000
• Physical Activity Epidemiology, 1 2/714,000

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Scouting and the Supercourse
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Scouting Supercourse
Arab Scouting Supercourse Network Arabic
Translation Sharing Knowledge Scouting Supercourse
Dr. Atif Abelmageed
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Library of Alexandria Scientific Supercourse
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Institute of Public Health Research Tehran
University of Medical Sciences
Disaster Supercourse
Ali Ardalan, M.D. For the Supercourse Team
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Disaster situation in the globe

• Each year, one out of five countries faces a
  major crisis, from both developed developing

Source CRED. 2007 disasters in number
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Just-in-time (JIT) education Basic concept Goal

• The nature of disasters draws public attention!
  Larger events mean larger interest.
• JIT educational strategy seizes the opportunity
  of public interest to teach and find national and
  global expertise in hazards and risk information.
  
• Although it can be applied by any means of
  communication, the Internet is an efficient
  approach to provide educators with scholarly,
  user-friendly, low-cost, and online-offline
  training materials.

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JIT Supercourse lectures Internet-based rapid
onset educational system

• Hurricane
• Katrina
• Gustav
• Tsunami
• South Asia
• Earthquake
• Bam
• Pakistan
• Indonesia
• China

Mostly translated to Spanish, Chinese and Arabic
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Supercourse Health Diplomacy

• Dr. Margaret Chan
• Public health always wants a peaceful way
  forward. This is diplomacy
• The Supercourse network is our diplomacy to
  gather public health scientists and professional
  from all corners of the globe together, from both
  developed and developing countries.
• We are practicing the diplomacy in a healthy way
  to educate people on global health!

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Jesse
Faina
Soni
Ron
Mita
Ala
Ala Ardaldin Iran Sunita
Dodani US/Pakistan Jesse Hung
China Ronald LaPorte
US Mita Lovalekar US/India Faina
Linkov US/Ukraine Nicholas
Padilla Mexico Rania Saad
Egypt Francois Sauer
US Eugene Shubnikov Russia
Rania
Nicholas
Francois
Eugene
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you
can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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Thank You
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