Supercourse, egovernment, ehealth and ediplomacy Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D., Director WHO Collaborating Center, Pittsburgh Vint Cerf, Ph.D., father of the Internet Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D., Director Library of Alexandria Gil Omenn, M.D., Professor, Uni. Michigan, former President, AAAS WHO CC. Pgh

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela Prevention education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the Health of the US and World. Supercourse team

GLOCAL Health (Global to Local)

Large Multidisciplinary Network Open Source PowerPoint Lecture Library Distribution System Continuous Quality Improvement

Holdren, AAAS Federoff, AAAS Omenn, AAAS Supercourse = Recyling Slides “Standing on the shoulders of Giants”

7/291,000 Google Page Rank

Supercourse 56,000 members, 172 countries (152, Iran, 198, Egypt, 162 Cuba, 12 Afghanistan) 4075 Lectures 31 Languages Represented (673 Spanish, 323 Chinese, 59 Arabic, 4 Hebrew) 42 mirrored Servers (Mongolia, Egypt, Nepal, Sudan) Partnering with Library of Alexandria and WHO, distribution of Supercourse DVD to all Medical and Public Health schools (2500), Schools distributing to 400,000 faculty and students Islamic Supercourse, 2000 members Teaching of over 1 million students in last 12 months Presenting our H1N1 lectures to 50 million people 150 Publications in Science, Nature, Lancet, BMJ

.gov membership USGS 1 NASA 2 HCFA 3 HIS 3 State Dept 3 USDA 6 VA 11 EPA 13 DOD 143 CDC 902 HHS 927 NIH 2825 Total: 4236 Environmental Health Supercourse

OSTP USDA Nutrition Egypt WHO Geneva Serageldin Roglic Novek Cerf Google Father of Internet Kretsch

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 coordinator of the Indian Supercourse Network.

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

CDC DOD NASA Siloing Knowledge

CDC DOD NASA Shrinking the Silos– Human Networking building and Sharing AIDs Information with PowerPoint Lectures

Why have we been successful in E- global health, and E-diplomacy Global Health = Nobel Cause Simple, Obvious, Transparent Extremely Credible people in Network No Money Flat Hierarchy Two way street Democratic values, no censorship, freedom of speech Global Health People Like Global Health People

Current Projects Environmental Health Interoperability Global Network of all Medical school, public health, Nursing and Ministry of Health faculty and students Nursing Supercourse Library of Alexandria Scientific Supercourse Library of Alexandria knowledge “Swat” team GM foods (Nina Fedoroff) Building joint virtual research and training centers of excellence Expert Knowledge Reachback

Message from Egyptian Supercourse Member His name is Mohamed (her new baby) I think he will be very active supercourse student and also help us in building bridges between the US and Muslim countries. all wishes... Nihad