1. Global Health So near, So far
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This lecture is dedicated to the concept of GLOCAL Health-translation of global health from global to local. Global Health Network Supercourse Project is collaborating with the Library of Alexandria in Egypt to develop one of the largest repositories of Global Health Lectures. On the Pittsburgh side, the majority of the work is being done through the WHO Collaborating Centre for disease monitoring and telecommunications, under the direction of Dr. Ronald LaPorte. Dr. Faina Linkov has been in charge of the development and modifying this lecture. The mission of these slides is: 1)Building awareness of global health for faculty and students of medical, public health, and allied health professions; 2) Developing a global health network for students to tackle local to global health problems. An expanded version of this lecture is available on the Supercourse at address.
Primary developers:
Ronald LaPorte, PhD, Supercourse developer, USA
Ismail Serageldin, PhD, Library of Alexandria, Egypt
Faina Linkov, PhD, Supercourse developer, USA
Francois Sauer, MD, Supercourse developer, USA
Eugene Shubnikov, MD, Supercourse developer, Russia
And the Global Health Network
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World Health Organization
Collaborating Centre, University of Pittsburgh

2. Health and Global Health
“Health is not only the absence of infirmity and disease but also a state of physical, mental and social well-being.”
Glocal health: Global to Local impact on health and disease.
To improve the health of the world we need to think “GloCal” from global to local. The patient sitting in front of us is affected not only his/her local environment, but also his/her community, country and world. We need to think locally with our patients but also globally.

3. What is WHO?
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

4. Global health is an important new term, and an important new concept
Global health is an important new term, and an important new concept. The Institute of Medicine refers to global health as "health problems, issues and concerns that transcend national boundaries, may be influenced by circumstances or experiences in other countries, and are best addressed by cooperative actions and solutions."
However, it is not just health problems that cross borders or are common to countries around the world; solutions to these problems can also cross borders and be shared, regardless of level of development. All countries can both learn from other countries and also share their own experiences and information. An enlightened new definition of global health paints the picture of a two-way street: Shared problems, sharing solutions. This new definition is very important for the science of global health, as global health is portrayed as a road of sharing.
There are many challenges to global health with different professionals emphasizing different diseases. Interdisciplinary approaches are needed to ease the burden of both communicable and non-communicable diseases.
As of today, medical schools and schools of allied health professions have very few lectures on global health in their curricula
Health is becoming a global problem, with chronic diseases being a number one killer around the globe
By learning more about global health research, faculty and students will be better equipped to face the challenges of their unique profession
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5. The Supercourse: Internet bringing us closer together through learning about global health
THE SUPERCOURSE is a global library of lectures on prevention and public health, shared for free by the best faculty in the world.
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Supercourse currently has over 4,650 lectures shared by over 46,000 faculty members in 172 countries. Supercourse is a teaching supplement model, where the teachers of the world share their best lectures. A growing number of the Supercourse lectures are dedicated to the theme of global health research
Medical students can learn directly from the lectures. They can also use the lectures and slides for presenting to their patients, the community or their own students
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