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Global HealthGlobal Health Network Supercourse
Project, University of Pittsburgh
Building a Global Prevention Network to Share Knowledge and
Wisdom
Mission of this lecture
1.Teach every medical, public health and nursing student in the world about global health
2. Develop a global health network for students to tackle local to global health problems.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care.”
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
International Health
“International health refers to the interlocking and interrelated health status of people throughout the world and to efforts to improve the health of all people of every country.”
Last, Foege
Public health, medicine, and nursing: parts of the same puzzle
Global health is an important new term, and an important new concept. The Institute of Medicine refers to global health as
"health problems, issues and concerns that transcend national boundaries, may be influenced by circumstances or experiences in other countries, and are best addressed by cooperative actions
and solutions."
Why should medical students learn about global health
• As of today, medical schools have very few lectures on global health in their curricula
• Health is becoming a global problem, with chronic diseases being a number one killer around the globe
• By learning more about global health research, medical students will be better equipped to face the challenges of their unique profession
What should medical students know about global health
• Know the differences between global and international health research
• Identify key challenges to global health• Recognize the importance of information sharing in
the area of global health• Recognize the importance of preventive activities in
improving global health• Recognize the need for global networking to
improve global health locally and globally
Local health
International health
Global health
Smallpox vaccination: the case of global health effort in disease
eradication
Most important problems of global health today
• Communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions
• Noncommunicable diseases
• Injuries
There are many challenges to global health with different professionals emphasizing different diseases.
Interdisciplinary approaches are needed to ease the burden of both
communicable and non-communicable diseases
Digital divide: gap between haves and have nots
One of the biggest global health challenges is access to information
Problem: Information sharing:
Important challenge to global health in the 21st century.
Potential Solution: WWW
The importance of knowledge, learning,
innovation, and IT
“The most fundamental resource in modern economy is knowledge and, accordingly, the most important process is learning”
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke (1992) National Systems of Innovation. Towards a Theory of Innovation and Interactive Learning. Pinter, London and New York, pp. 342
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
University of Khartoum, Sudan
Cuttington University, Liberia
Latest Biomedical Journal1990
One of the Solutions: The Supercourse
THE SUPERCOURSE is a global library of lectures on
prevention and public health, shared for free by the best
faculty in the world.
www.pitt.edu/~super1
BiomedicalResearch
Education in Medicine and Public Health
Global Health Information Sharing: Supercourse CD/DVD
Distributed to over 10,000 individuals around the globe
Forming a network
Conclusion
• Global health is important, as similar conditions plague people in developed and developing countries alike
• Life expectancy in the 20th century was improved due to successes in global health efforts
• Medical students need to know more about global health research and form networks to share important global health knowledge
Organizations working in the area of global health
World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the
World Bank, UNICEF, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the
UN Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CARE International, the Global Health Council, and many
others
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Additional Readings
Open Source http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec6921/index.htm
Supercourse and Disaster Management Training http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec21601/index.htm
Social Epidemiologic Methods in International Population Health and Health Services Research http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec17561/index.htm
Principles of Research Synthesis
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec9611/index.htm