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Global Health, so Far, so Near

Janice Dorman, Ph.D.

DirectorMolecular

Epidemiology

Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.

DirectorDisease Monitoring

and Telecommunications

WHO CollaboratingCenter

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What do we need to improve global health?

EffectiveCheapUbiquitousAcceptableSustainable

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EffectiveCheapUbiquitousAcceptableSustainable

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Large Multidisciplinary Network

Open SourcePowerPoint Lecture

Library

Distribution System to EducatorsContinuous Quality Improvement

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Lectures

Network: 46,000 in 172 countries

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Global Training in Public Health

Number trained/ year in SPHs <10,000

Supercourse trained last year = 6,000,000H1N1 lecture = 50,000,000

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3183 Supercourse Faculty in EuropeAlbania 2 Andorra 1Armenia 8 Belarus 7Belgium 35 Bosnia & Herzovina 3Bulgaria 19 Croatia 18Cyprus 5 Czech Rep. 20Denmark 38 Estonia 5 Finland 42 France 124Georgia 23 Germany 179Greece 15 Hungary 11Iceland 6 Ireland 30Italy 103 Latvia 7Liechtenstein 2 Luxembourg 49Macedonia 20 Malta 3Moldavia 9 Netherlands 383Norway 89 Poland 96Portugal 38 Romania 36Russia 110 Scotland 10Serbia 2 Slovak Rep. 7Slovakia 3 Slovenia 6Spain 195 Sweden 278Switzerland 117 Turkey 38Ukraine 38 UK 873Vatican City 1

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nanos gigantum humeris insidentes

Standing on the shoulders of Giants

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JHU

Tokyo U.

MOH Mexico

LaPlata

Chenni

Moscow State.Beijing

Cambridge

Uni South Carolina

Theran U

Medical SchoolsPublic HealthNursingAgricultureMinistries of HealthNational Libraries

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What is the most important educational Technology of the 21st century?

On the web

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Institute of Public Health Research Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Disaster Supercourse

Ali Ardalan

For the Supercourse Team

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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

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Lectures in 10 hrs, TranslatedInto Japanese and 11 other languages

Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear lecturesFirst Scientific lecture on disasterLeading Japan Disaster lecture

JapanJIT

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Supercourse Mirror Sites

Mirrored Servers in 80 countries Egypt, Mozambique, Iran, China,

Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Israel

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Mobile-Global Health = Reaching of Billions of people world wide to improve Global health and prevention using Mobile technology, and education

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•There are 1.5 cell phones for every European•There is one cell phone for every 2.4 people in Africa •In 2 years the number of cell phones will equal the number of people.•There are more cell phones then toothbrushes

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Eugene Shubnikov, M.D. RussiaSkype Snapshot

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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/mobileGHScourse.htm

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Directory of Apps for Global Health and Sciencehttp://www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/appsMobilePhones.htm

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EPIDEMIOLOGY.url Apple App Store Downloads on iTunes-- Medical - A thru Z.urlhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios-medical/id6020?mt=8&letter=E&page=1#pagee.g. Epidemic: the Past, Present and Future of the Diseases that Made Us Epidemiology and Biostatistics Epidemiology Glossary         EpidemRiskEpidemiology and Biostatistics - iPhone Apps Plus.url iPhone Apps - Epidemiology and Biostatistics.urlTop 25 BlackBerry Apps for Public Health Professionals.url Top 25 Google Android Apps for Public Health Professionals.url 50 Excellent Public Health Web Sites Worth Bookmarking.url Department of Health and Human Services releases first Public Health app for patients iMedicalApps.url Ushahidi apps uses Crowdmapping to collect instant public health data iMedicalApps.url Public Health News for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store.url Track bed bugs with new iPhone app   ajc.com.url 5-Minute Colon Test Slashes Deaths - Courant.com.url

Api-demiology

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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

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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

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

Nelson

Mandela

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www.pitt.edu/~super1/super1@Pitt.edu