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NIH Supercourse ??
Supercourse Teamwww.pitt.edu/~super1/
Developed by the Global Health Network Supercourse team in Pittsburgh
NIH Health Reform Act, 2006
Sept. 26
The bill would also require the Director of the NIH to:
…Establish an electronic data base to track research activity…
NIH Mission Statement
…directs programs for the collection, dissemination, and
exchange of information.
NIH Supercourse Goals
Bridge Between research and classroom
Improve NIH’s National and Global Transparency
e-Recruiting of students into Science and the NIH
Taxpayer Accountability
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Research Education
Symbiotic Relationship of Research and Education
Circle of Science
How can we improve science and education worldwide?
Question:
Answer:
Get better lectures
Why don’t scientists share our most exciting
PowerPoint lectures for free?
Helping Teachers
Empowering, not Replacing the teacher
38,000 Faculty4000 from Developing Countries
7000 Universities 152 Countries
Lectures
Authors of Lectures
20 Nobel Prize Winners 300 National Academy of Science NIH Director US Surgeon General Ministers of Health Former CDC Director Head of AAAS
120 countries400,000 students
Just in Time Lectures
University of Khartoum, Sudan
Cuttington University, Liberia
Last Biomedical Journal1990
Supercourse Mirror Sites
42 Mirrored Sites,MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia, Russia
Beginnings of NIH Supercourse13 Institutes, 65 lectures
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/NIH/nih-legacy.htm
NIH Supercourse Goals
Bridge Between research and classroom
Improve NIH’s National and Global Transparency
e-Recruiting of students into Science and the NIH
Taxpayer Accountability
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret
Fuller
For more information, please contact Supercourse developers:
• Ronald LaPorte, PhD [email protected]
• Faina Linkov, PhD [email protected]
• Eugene Shubnikov, MD [email protected]
• Mita Lovalekar, MD [email protected]