Strategic Plan

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Strategic Plan WHO-NCD-Supercourse
Ala Alwan, M.D. Assistant Director-General for
Non-communicable Diseases Mental Health, and
Injuries, WHO Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.
Director WHO CC, Professor of Epidemiology, Uni.
Pittsburgh
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you
can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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Cambridge, 1999 WHO Diabetes Epidemiology
Training Course
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Importance of Cambridge Diabetes Courses

• 22 Courses since 1981
• Diabetes epidemiologist from 7 (1981) to gt800
  (2005)
• Over half of Diabetes Epidemiology articles now
  by scientists at Cambridge courses
• 19 developing country students published 343
  articles
• World leaders in diabetes trained in these
  courses (Alwan, Ramachadran, Mohan, Roglich, de
  Serenday, Ze)
• Global Network of Diabetes Epidemiologists

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WHO-NCD-Supercourse
Supercourse Faculty in all countries working
together to improve global health through better
prevention education
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Supercourse

• Originally funded by NASA, National Library of
  Medicine and the Library of Alexandria
• A Global Network of 55,000 Faculty in 172
  countries
• Mission, to improve health with Prevention
  Education
• Like the Library of Alexandria, but instead of
  saving and sharing books we save and share
  PowerPoint slides and lectures
• 3455 lectures, 1500 about non-communicable
  diseases
• In 12 months the lectures taught 1,000,000
  students
• Top web site, Science, and top 100 PC magazine
• 150 publications in Nature, Science, Lancet, BMJ
• 20 Nobel Prize winners

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Why Build a WHO-NCD-Supercourse?

• Growing importance of NCDs
• Proof of Concept, Cambridge
• Proof of Concept, Supercourse
• Many Common risk factors
• All countries are impacted by NCDs
• Need for cross-fertilization of young scientists
• Training to combat different NCDs is similar

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Building the Global WHO-NCD-Supercourse Human
Network
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WHO-NCD Supercourse Training

• 14 day training course
• Didactic course work in morning using Supercourse
  lectures
• Small interdisciplinary work groups in afternoon
  to develop international NCD project

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WHO-NCD-Supercourse Certificate
this certifies that
Ali Ardalan, M.D.
is awarded this certificate for Completion of a
WHO-NCD-Supercourse program in Tehren
27 October
2008
Ala Alwan, M.D. Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.
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Global Scientific Advisory Board
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Recruitment

• WHO NCD Collaborating Centres
• Supercourse networking
• WHO Network
• Schools of Public Health
• Previous students at short courses

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Criteria for Selection

• Under age 35
• Working in the area of Diabetes, CHD or Cancer
• Located in a good research environment
• Excellent recommendations
• Agree to teach a course in NCD prevention in the
  next 12 months
• Preference for developing countries
• Able to pay for transportation

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a
lifetime. (Chinese Proverb)
Teach the Teacher
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Evaluation
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Conclusions

• NCDs are a major global problem
• NCDs can be prevented
• We need a large global network of people trained
  in NCD prevention
• A trained global network can be inexpensively
  achieved by building a WHO-NCD-Supercourse
  training program