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Janice Dorman, Ph.D.
DirectorMolecular
Epidemiology
Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.
DirectorDisease Monitoring
and Telecommunications
WHO CollaboratingCenter
Aids, Global Warming, Diabetes, TB, Cancer, H1N1
Is the world becoming Healthier?
Global Health, Tipping point = 1949
Ardu4,000,000 BC
Truman1949
Obama2009
<1949Time Frame4,000,000 yearsGain in Life Expectancy20 years
1 year gain in life expectancy took
200,000 years
>1949Time Frame60 yearsGain in Life Expectancy25 years
1 year gain in life expectancy took
2.4 years
Mobile-Global Health = Reaching of Billions of people world wide to improve Global health and prevention using Mobile technology
GLOCAL Health (Global to Local)
What do we need to improve global health?
EffectiveCheapUbiquitousAcceptableSustainable
EffectiveCheapUbiquitousAcceptableSustainable
Large Multidisciplinary Network
Open SourcePowerPoint Lecture
Library
Distribution System to EducatorsContinuous Quality Improvement
Lectures
Network: 46,000 in 172 countries
1,000,000 students taught
Experienced teachers New Educators
University of Khartoum, Sudan
Cuttington University, Liberia
Last Biomedical Journal2003
140 Chinese Medical Students
www.supercourse.cn
Institute of Public Health Research Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Disaster Supercourse
Ali Ardalan
For the Supercourse Team
H1N1 lecture• Lecture in 24 hours• Translated in 3 days to 11 languages include Arabic,Farsi and Hebrew•Reached 50 million• Became trusted source•Leading H1N1 lecture on web
Mobile Global Health Components
• Supercourse App, lecture to Mobile and world
• Mobile-Global Surveillance • I-Phones and Pico Projectors• Expert Knowledge Reachback• Global Telehouse Inspection• Supercourse-Media link• Teaching the world about global health• JIT Disaster Knowledge• Academic-Industry partnerships• Global Surveys
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson
Mandela
Ali Ardaldin IranSunita Dodani US/PakistanJesse Hung ChinaRonald LaPorte USMita Lovalekar US/IndiaFaina Linkov US/UkraineEric Marler US Nicholas Padilla MexicoKawkab Shishani JordanFrancois Sauer USEugene Shubnikov Russia
Ali SoniJesse
Ron
FainaMita
Nicholas
Kawkab
Francois Eugene
Eric
www.pitt.edu/~super1/[email protected]