Using low bandwidth Internet to inexpensively reach large numbers of healthy people to prevent disease
Janice Dorman, Ph.D. Director Molecular Epidemiology Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D. Director Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications WHO Collaborating Center GSPH
Ron FainaMita Eugene Akira Rania Eunryoung Tomoko Abed Soni
If Cars Developed as Same Pace as IT 100,000 mile/hr 250,000 mile/gallon Cost = $5.00
MOH Ethiopia Uni Pgh Cuba NCI Urra LaPorte Arena Sudan Kebebe World Bank Power of the Internet
Power of the Internet
Improved Manufacturing and Distribution of Lectures
Language of Science Teacher Resource Global course Library of Lectures Quality Assurance Mirroring
What is the new global language of science?
Teacher Resource
Experienced teachers New Educators
University of Khartoum, Sudan Cuttington University, Liberia Last Biomedical Journal 1990
How can we improve Prevention education worldwide? Question: Answer: Get better lectures
Why don’t we share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?
15,000 Faculty 151 Countries
Cuba138 Brazil135 Argentina 95 Peru 94 Columbia 68 Mexico 59 Chile 24 Venezuela 22 Jamaica 6 Guatemala 6 Bolivia 5 Bahamas 4 Honduras 3 West Indies 3 Haiti 2 Guyana 2 St Lucia 1 N= 731
Reaching the unreached What % of people in the world has access to the Internet? 7%
Supercourse Mirror Sites 42 Mirrored Sites, MOH India, Egypt, Mongolia, Nepal, Sudan, China, Russia
Access to 100,000-1,000, Lectures Sent to 10,000 prevention experts in 139 Countries
Future Directions Server Cell phone School TV Development of new information distribution systems in collaboration with Pitt Supercomputer Center Server to Cell phone/PDA to School TV
Reaching the unreached Shouldn’t the disabled have equal access to science? Should those who primary language is Spanish, or Portuguese have equal access to science?
1770 Lectures Lecture Status
Eric R. Kandel (2000) Paul C Lauterbur (2003) Gunter Blobel (1999) Paul Greengard (2000) Baruch S. Blumberg (1976) Joshua Lederberg (1958) Nobel Prize Laureates in the Supercourse (Medicine)
Epidemiologic Research Teaching/ Mentoring