Special Envoy to the OIC Strategic Plan: Building a Library of Alexandria-OIC-US Supercourse Sada Cumber Special Envoy to the OIC This presentation overview a strategic plan to Build a Library of Alexandria-OIC-US Supercourse for the prevention of disease.

Supercourse-Library of Alexandria Team Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D., Gilbert Omenn, M.D., Ph.D. Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D. Vint Cerf, Ph.D. Francois Sauer, M.D. There is an important need to improve the sharing of scientific knowledge among scientists and educators of the world. We propose that a Library of Alexandria OIC Supercourse be built. We describe first the parent Supercourse which is a proof of concept on a global scale and then discuss how to build a Library of Alexandria-OCI- US Supercourse.

Ibn-Zakaria Al-Razi (Razes) Abu-Bakr Mohammaed Ibn-Zakaria Al-Razi (Razes) 841-926 AD Medicine “the art concerned in preserving healthy bodies, in combating disease, and restoring health to the sick” Some of the earliest roots of global health and prevention are from OIC countries. This is from one of the most famous Persian physicians, who puts preserving health bodies first, as we do. Global Health

Supercourse Faculty in all countries working together to improve global health through improving prevention education The Supercourse works to improve global health by sharing all of our knowledge about the prevention of disease. For example, it makes sense that if a case of West Nile fever is seen in New York city that a public health official in the US would contact someone in Egypt of advise. Also, as has been seen with the horrible disasters in Burma and China, it is better to have a global expert network in place before the disaster rather than trying to cobble it together after a disaster. 4

Human Networks Iran USA LaPorte Ze Sauliamen Nagi Qatar Ardalan China Sudan USA China Iran Ze LaPorte Sauliamen Nagi Ardalan What is important is not the use of the Internet to more powerfully reach other computers. Instead, what is important is the development of unique human networks. It is our minds, it is us talking across our disciplines, it us communicating across the world which will change the world. On the Internet we are borderless, and focused on Prevention. Every one in higher education can contribute to prevention. Qatar

Concept: Why don’t scientists and educators share our most exciting PowerPoint slides and lectures on Prevention on the Internet for free? We lose nothing by putting our best PowerPoint slides lectures into an Internet library. In return our best lectures are seen by many more people, and we can use other people’s lectures as well to improve our teaching. Prevention lectures about Dengue from the Sudan can be used by faculty in in Puerto Rico to teach their students, and meta analysis from India can be used in Algeria. 6

55,000 Faculty 173 Countries Supercourse Network Sharing of scientific lectures is dependent upon building a global network of prevention scientists. With the Supercourse we have networked close to 55,000 academic faculty members from 172 countries. This is a wonderful group of people who have agreed to share our best scientific lectures across borders with whom ever wants to use them. 55,000 Faculty 173 Countries

3418 Lectures >1,000,000 students taught We have collected 3418 lectures. It is remarkable that these lectures have taught over 1 million students, with many students from OIC countries learning about global health and prevention through these lectures. >1,000,000 students taught

We have 14 lectures from Nobel prize winners, the head of the NIH, the former head of the CDC, the former surgeon General of the US. We have over 200 outstanding lectures from Arab/Muslim countries. The lectures from the OIC countries are being used world wide to teach about prevention. 9

Pakistan 620 Members Pakistani Supercourse Dr. Dodani One of the largest networks we have is in Pakistan. During the Pakisitani earthquake we were able to refer 40 people trained in public health to help the World Health Organization in their efforts to mitigate the disaster. We also gave Supercourse training courses here in Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and several other OIC countries on how to do scientific research which were attended by many students. Dr. Dodani 620 Members Pakistani Supercourse 10

Supercourse Mirror Sites The copies of the course are proliferating rapidly, with over 40 now spread across the world. 42 Mirrored Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia, Russia

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela This our mission statement is “Prevention education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the Health of the world”. We want to improve prevention education world wide so that not only are each of our individual countries healthier, but so is the world.

in the Supercourse team from 48 countries 1338 OIC members in the Supercourse team from 48 countries We already have many collaborators in OIC countries. There are 130 students, 3 deans, 398 academics, 46 from WHO, 1 Minister of health, 3 CEOs. We plan to expand this network to reach as many people (especially academia and MOH) who are interested in prevention. This global health network in OIC countries will be important for prevention, of disease, and mitigation of disasters.

Afghanistan 6 Albania 2 Algeria 1 Azerbaijan 28 Bahrain 7 Bangladesh 16 Brunei Darussalam 1 Burkina Faso 3 Cameroon 14 Cote D’Ivorie 2 Egypt 104 Gabon 1 Gambia 3 Guyana 2 Indonesia 47 Iran 58 Iraq 3 Jordan 34 Kazakhstan 34 Kuwait 10 Kyrgyzstan 4 Lebanon 6 Malaysia 78 Maldives 1 Mali 7 Morocco 6 Mozambique 4 Niger 3 Nigeria 80 Oman 14 Pakistan 630 Palestine 8 Papua New Guinea 4 Qatar 29 Saudi Arabia 30 Senegal 7 Sierra Leone 1 Somalia 4 Sudan 29 Syria 3 Tajikistan 3 Togo 1 Tunisia 2 Turkey 29 Turkmenistan 3 UAE 13 Uganda 2 Uzbekistan 8 Yemen 4 We have faculty from 48 of the 57 countries. In OIC countries we have outstanding representation from 630 in Pakistan, 104 from Egypt, 58 from Iran. We plan to double or triple the number of representatives from each country.

Developed under grants from NASA and NLM/NIH 80 million hits a year Highest Google Ranked Site for Global Health lectures 170 publications in Science, Nature, PNAS Top 100 PC magazine site Leading site Arabic for many Prevention topics Leading site in many OIC countries Enormous Sharing between OIC countries, US and world wide The Supercourse has had a long history. It was originally developed under grants from NASA and then the National Library of Medicine (NIH). It is one of the highest rated web sites today. We have had consider scientific interest with publications in Science, Nature, PNAS. We have published several papers with Arab/Muslim investigators on the importance of a Supercourse for Arab Science, and Islamic Health. There has been numerous technologic awards with our site being rated in the top 100 in PC magazine. If one examines Arabic Language Sites, many of our lectures are the tops in health as well. Also, within OIC countries there is considerable usage, with many having this as the primary site for lecture about health and prevention. The Supercourse has provided free sharing of prevention knowledge across OIC countries, as well as between the US and OIC countries, and world wide. 15 15

Building the OIC Supercourse Translation of all lectures into Arabic and French Creation of Primary centers in the Library of Alexandria and WHO CC Pittsburgh Increasing collaborators to 5,000 from all OIC countries Collection of Prevention lectures from OIC faculty Establishment of Country specific OIC sites Dissemination of lectures through Web, Mirrored servers, DVDs, Pod casting, etc. A OIC supercourse is needed. To accomplish this we will first translate all the lectures into Arabic and French. The reason for this is that the lectures should not only be used by those in health, but they should be used in disciplines such as immunology, history, education, nutrition, nursing, etc. Our lectures are thus not targeted exclusively for physicians, but rather for all teachers in higher education. The two central organizing centres will be at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, and the World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Pittsburgh. We already have had very successful collaboration with each other. This is not a one-way street of knowledge, it is a two way street. Some of the most outstanding lectures we have on disasters have been produced in Iran, we have outstanding lectures on how to develop research from Qatar. These types of lectures have taught many students in China, the US, Europe and Latin America. We will use various means to disseminate lectures throughout the OIC region as it is critical to bridge the digital divide. We have been using mirrored servers, DVDS, and even paper.

Our project has had a wonderful network of volunteers around the world, from Russia to Egypt, to India, to China to Mexico who are the core to keeping the Supercourse running. We all believe in “Glocal” health (to attack the problems locally within our countries, we have to attack the global problems”. These are the people who are building a Supercourse Prevention Supercourse we invite more from OIC countries to participate. The OIC supercourse will be a part of a bigger picture of sharing of scientific knowledge across aldl countries of the world.

This lecture is available at: www.pitt.edu/super1/ Comments and questions Ambassador Cumber (cumber@state.gov)