Janice Dorman, Ph.D. Director Molecular Epidemiology Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D. Director Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications WHO Collaborating Center
Aids, Global Warming, Diabetes, TB, Cancer, H1N1 Is the world becoming Healthier?
Global Health, Tipping point = 1949 Ardu 4,000,000 BC Truman 1949 Obama 2009 <1949 Time Frame 4,000,000 years Gain in Life Expectancy 20 years 1 year gain in life expectancy took 200,000 years >1949 Time Frame 60 years Gain in Life Expectancy 25 years 1 year gain in life expectancy took 2.4 years
Mobile-Global Health = Reaching of Billions of people world wide to improve Global health and prevention using Mobile technology
GLOCAL Health (Global to Local)
What do we need to improve global health? Effective Cheap Ubiquitous Acceptable Sustainable
Effective Cheap Ubiquitous Acceptable Sustainable
Large Multidisciplinary Network Open Source PowerPoint Lecture Library Distribution System to Educators Continuous Quality Improvement
Lectures Network: 46,000 in 172 countries 1,000,000 students taught
Experienced teachers New Educators
University of Khartoum, Sudan Cuttington University, Liberia Last Biomedical Journal 2003
140 Chinese Medical Students
Institute of Public Health Research Tehran University of Medical Sciences Disaster Supercourse Ali Ardalan For the Supercourse Team
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
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
75 million hits/year 125 publications (including Science, BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med) Top 11 Medical Pages Lancet Best of the Web Science Mag. Top 100 PC Magazine
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Ali Ardaldin Iran Sunita Dodani US/Pakistan Jesse Hung China Ronald LaPorte US Mita Lovalekar US/India Faina Linkov US/Ukraine Eric Marler US Nicholas Padilla Mexico Kawkab Shishani Jordan Francois Sauer US Eugene Shubnikov Russia Ali Soni Jesse Ron Faina Mita Nicholas Kawkab Francois Eugene Eric