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

Janice Dorman, Ph.D.

DirectorMolecular

Epidemiology

Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.

DirectorDisease Monitoring

and Telecommunications

WHO CollaboratingCenter

Gil OmennFormerPresident AAAS

Vint Cerf, Father ofInternet

Ismail Serageldan, DirectorLibrary of Alexandria

Health

Tipping Point: 1

Global Health, Tipping point = 1949

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Internet

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PowerPoint

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For every Epidemiologistthere are 240 Clinicians

Large Multidisciplinary Network

Open SourcePowerPoint Lecture

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Distribution System to EducatorsContinuous Quality Improvement

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NASA

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Nicogossian

Sudan

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Empowering Educators world wide with state of the art lecture content

                                                          

University of Khartoum, Sudan

Cuttington University, Liberia

Last Biomedical Journal1990

How can we improve science education worldwide?

Question:

Answer:

Get better lectures

Why don’t scientists share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?

56,000 Faculty9500 Universities

174 Countries

Supercourse Mirror Sites

42 Mirror Sites,MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia, Russia

140 Chinese Medical Students

www.supercourse.cn

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

Indian Supercourse Network6,735 faculty members

More than 200 lectures on topics of interest to teachers of Public Health in India

Mita Lovalekar, MBBS,MPH is the coordinatorof the Indian

Supercourse Network.

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Supercourse Trainees = 1,000,000

Non-Supercourse training = 5,000

Global Training in Public Health

WHO-NCD SupercourseCertificate

OIC-Supercourseat the Library of Alexandria

1338 OIC members in the Supercourse team from 48 countries

75 million hits/year

125 publications (including Science, BMJ, Lancet, Nature,

Nature Med)

Top 11 MedicalPages Lancet

Best of the WebScience Mag.

Top 100PC Magazine

Page Rankings

Global Health Lectures 1 & 2/27,200,000

Epidemiology lectures 1 & 2/2,150,000

Physical Activity Epidemiology, 1 & 2/714,000

Scouting and theSupercourse

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Dr. Atif Abelmageed

Institute of Public Health Research

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Disaster Supercourse

Ali Ardalan, M.D.

For the Supercourse Team

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

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.

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

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!

Ala Ardaldin IranSunita Dodani US/PakistanJesse Hung ChinaRonald LaPorte USMita Lovalekar US/IndiaFaina Linkov US/UkraineNicholas Padilla MexicoRania Saad EgyptFrancois Sauer USEugene Shubnikov Russia

AlaSoni

JesseRon

FainaMita

NicholasRania

Francois Eugene

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson

Mandela

www.pitt.edu/~super1/