Prevention Supercourse
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Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D.Gilbert Omenn, M.D., Ph.D.Vint Cerf, Ph.D.Faina Linkov, Ph.D.Eugene Shubnikov, M.D.Mita Lovalekar, M.D.Nicolas Padilla, M.D.Ali Ardalan, M.D.
Prevention ScienceSupercourse
Prototype for a Scientific Supercourse
Free Library of shared Books
Free Library of shared PowerPoint lectures
Supercourse Launch, Sept. 1997
1997 Problems in GlobalHealth and Epidemiology
WHO DIAMOND Project
155 Centers
70 Countries
7.2% of Children
Problem 1: Journals on diabetes > 10 yrs in developing countries
ScientificResearch
Teaching/Mentoring
Large Multidisciplinary Network
Open SourcePowerPoint Lecture
Library
Distribution System to EducatorsContinuous Quality Improvement
• Connect Everyone in Global Health
• Language of Science
• Teacher Resource
• Global course
• Library of Lectures
• Mirroring
• Connect Everyone in Global Health
• Language of Science
• Teacher Resource
• Global course
• Library of Lectures
• Mirroring
Global Health Network
To Network Everyone in Public Health in the World to share our
knowledge of prevention
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Pittsburgh Alexandriay
Germany
SerageldinLaPorte
Kunhardt
Sudan
Omenn
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IsraelIsrael
• Connect Everyone in Global Health
• Language of Science
• Teacher Resource
• Global course
• Library of Lectures
• Mirroring
What is the new global language of teaching?
ChalkboardPresentation
Power ofPowerPoint
Pretty, Lively, Sounded Presentations
Dust to Dust
Linus Pauling Lecture
Dust to Dust
Linus Pauling Lecture
Pauling’s PowerPoint Lecture on the Web
PowerPoint on the WebGrowth
2000 30,000
2008 7,800,000
• 7.6 million lectures already on the web•Almost anyone with a computer world wide has access to PP• >95% of presentations use PowerPoint, <2% open source
• Connect Everyone in Global Health
• Language of Science
• Teacher Resource
• Global course
• Library of Lectures
• Mirroring
Empowering Educators world wide with state of the art lecture content
First Class Taught95 pages17 seconds“Flop Sweat”
Supercourse HelpingFirst-time Teacher
How can we improve science education worldwide?
Question:
Answer:
Get better lectures
Why don’t scientists share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson
Mandela
• Connect Everyone in Global Health
• Language of Science
• Teacher Resource
• Global course
• Library of Lectures
• Mirroring
44,000 Faculty3500 Universities
174 Countries
M. Omenn
Continuous Viral Recruiting by Network
Supercourse Mirror Sites
42 Mirrored Sites,MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia, Russia
East-West Collaboration
140 Chinese Medical Students
www.supercourse.cn
Indian Supercourse Network
6,735 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.
• Connect Everyone in Global Health
• Language of Science
• Teacher Resource
• Global course
• Library of Lectures
• Mirroring
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DevelopingCountries Lectures
A Two-way Street
How many students saw your best lecture last year?
Ali Aldadan, M.D.Tehren University
120 countries400,000 students
Teaching a Million
Can we teach 1,000,000 people world wide with a single prevention lecture?
Legacy Lectures: James Van Allen
Access to 100,000-1,000,000
1000 Lectures
Sent to 10,000 prevention experts
in 139 Countries
75 million hits/year
125 publications (including Science, BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med)
Top 11 MedicalPages Lancet
Top 100PC Magazine
Prevention lectures 1 and 2/ 532,000Global Health lecture 1 and 2/ 4,750,000Lecture 4 / 51,800,000
What are we capturing now and what do we want to capture in the future?
Science Prevention
Science 25 January 2008 Vol 319
Timeto
Classroom
24-36 months
Traditional ModelTranslating Research toClass Room
Science 25 January 2008 Vol 319
24-36 hours
Supercourse ModelTranslating Research toClass Room
ScientificResearch
Teaching/Mentoring
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
“The Idea is Everything”
Victor Hugo, 1893
“The Idea is a Scientific Supercourse”
•Securing Stable Funding•Establishment of Advanced concepts for web quality control•Strategic plan for other Disciplines
Launch of the BA Scientific Supercourse
www.pitt.edu/~super1/