Strategic PlanWHO-NCD-Supercourse
Ala Al’wan, M.D. Assistant Director-General for Non-communicable Diseases Mental Health, and Injuries, WHO Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D. Director WHO CC, Professor of Epidemiology, Uni. Pittsburgh
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Cambridge, 1999 WHO Diabetes Epidemiology Training Course
Importance of Cambridge Diabetes Courses
• 22 Courses since 1981•Diabetes epidemiologist from 7 (1981) to >800 (2005)• Over half of Diabetes Epidemiology articles now by scientists at Cambridge courses• 19 developing country students published 343 articles• World leaders in diabetes trained in these courses (Al’wan, Ramachadran, Mohan, Roglich, de Serenday, Ze) •Global Network of Diabetes Epidemiologists
WHO-NCD-Supercourse
SupercourseFaculty in all countriesworking together toimprove global healththrough better prevention education
Supercourse
• Originally funded by NASA, National Library of Medicine and the Library of Alexandria• A Global Network of 55,000 Faculty in 172 countries• Mission, to improve health with Prevention Education• Like the Library of Alexandria, but instead of saving and sharing books we save and share PowerPoint slides and lectures• 3455 lectures, ~1500 about non-communicable diseases• In 12 months the lectures taught ~1,000,000 students• Top web site, Science, and top 100 PC magazine• 150 publications in Nature, Science, Lancet, BMJ• 20 Nobel Prize winners
Why Build a WHO-NCD-Supercourse?
• Growing importance of NCDs• Proof of Concept, Cambridge• Proof of Concept, Supercourse• Many Common risk factors• All countries are impacted by NCDs• Need for cross-fertilization of young scientists• Training to combat different NCDs is similar
Building the Global WHO-NCD-Supercourse Human Network
WHO-NCD Supercourse Training
•14 day training course•Didactic course work in morning
using Supercourse lectures•Small interdisciplinary work groups
in afternoon to develop international NCD project
WHO-NCD-Supercourse Certificate this certifies that
Ali Ardalan, M.D.
is awarded this certificate forCompletion of a WHO-NCD-Supercourse
program in Tehren
Ala Al’wan, M.D.
Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.
27 October 2008
Global Scientific Advisory Board
Recruitment
•WHO NCD Collaborating Centres
•Supercourse networking•WHO Network•Schools of Public Health•Previous students at short
courses
Criteria for Selection
• Under age 35• Working in the area of Diabetes, CHD or
Cancer• Located in a good research environment• Excellent recommendations• Agree to teach a course in NCD
prevention in the next 12 months• Preference for developing countries• Able to pay for transportation
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (Chinese Proverb)
Teach the Teacher
Evaluation
Conclusions•NCDs are a major global problem•NCDs can be prevented•We need a large global network of
people trained in NCD prevention•A trained global network can be
inexpensively achieved by building a WHO-NCD-Supercourse training program
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