NIH Supercourse ?? Supercourse Team Developed by the Global Health Network Supercourse team in Pittsburgh

NIH Health Reform Act, 2006 Sept. 26 The bill would also require the Director of the NIH to: …Establish an electronic data base to track research activity…

NIH Mission Statement … directs programs for the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information.

NIH Supercourse Goals Bridge Between research and classroom Improve NIH’s National and Global Transparency e-Recruiting of students into Science and the NIH Taxpayer Accountability

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

ResearchEducation Symbiotic Relationship of Research and Education Circle of Science

How can we improve science and education worldwide? Question: Answer: Get better lectures

Why don’t scientists share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?

Helping Teachers Empowering, not Replacing the teacher

38,000 Faculty 4000 from Developing Countries 7000 Universities 152 Countries

Lectures

Authors of Lectures 20 Nobel Prize Winners 300 National Academy of Science NIH Director US Surgeon General Ministers of Health Former CDC Director Head of AAAS

120 countries 400,000 students Just in Time Lectures

University of Khartoum, Sudan Cuttington University, Liberia Last Biomedical Journal 1990

Supercourse Mirror Sites 42 Mirrored Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia, Russia

Beginnings of NIH Supercourse 13 Institutes, 65 lectures

NIH Supercourse Goals Bridge Between research and classroom Improve NIH’s National and Global Transparency e-Recruiting of students into Science and the NIH Taxpayer Accountability

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller

For more information, please contact Supercourse developers: Ronald LaPorte, PhD Faina Linkov, PhD Eugene Shubnikov, MD Mita Lovalekar, MD