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Distribution and the Digital Divide
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Mirrored Server Lahore, Pakistan Pittsburgh
We are providing copies (mirrors) of the course for free. These will be regularly updated. The mirrors are important as they speed the image transmission. Also having the copies on ones computer will increase usage.
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Supercourse Mirror Sites
The copies of the course are proliferating rapidly, with over 30 now spread across the world. 42 Mirrored Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Russia
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Husseini and LaPorte Islam with the internet could do much to prevent disease, BMJ, 2001, 323, 694
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Server to Cell phone/PDA to School TV
Future Directions Server Development of new information distribution systems involving the use of cell phones Server to Cell phone/PDA to School TV Cell phone School TV
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Nobel Prize Laureates in the Supercourse (Medicine)
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) These Nobel prize winners have, or will shortly provide Supercourse lectures
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Global Leaders giving lectures Jeff Koplan, M.D. Former Director,
Centers for Disease Control + all CDC Lectures The head of the centers for disease control contributed as well as the father of the internet. The head of health at NASA as well as the directors of 5 institutes at the National Institutes of health have joined. Vint Cerf (father of the Internet)
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$0.01/Student Cost Effectiveness 20,000 students x 5 yrs.
100,000 students trained $1000/100,000 $0.01/Student
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Sent to 10,000 prevention experts in 139 Countries
1000 Lectures Sent to 10,000 prevention experts in 139 Countries Access to 100,000-1,000,000
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(including BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med)
Top 11 Medical Pages Lancet 75 million hits/year 125 publications (including BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med) magazine Top 100 PC Magazine
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Future
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Pakistan Public Health/ Teleprevention
620 Members Pakistani Supercourse
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Just-in-Time Lectures
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Risk Communication Failure
Misleading Statistics Talking Head Framing as the “next epidemic” FEAR h FEAR 1.5 Billion Dollars
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Just-in-Time Lectures
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Bam Earthquake in Iran Eric Noji, M.D. CDC Ali Aldadan, M.D.
In Dec Iran was rocked by a huge early quake. We got one of the word’s leaders, Eric Noji to produce a lecture on the Bam Earthquake. In addition, a person who was on the ground Ali Aldadan, a Ph.D. student in epidemiology produced a second JIT lecture on the unfolding events. Ali taught the students in Pittsburgh with PowerPoint presented here, and him teaching over the telephone. The results of this was published in the Lancet. Ali Aldadan, M.D. Tehran, Iran
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Supercourse Developers
Ron Akira EunRyoung Mita Benjamin Rania Beatriz Soni Faina Eugene Ron LaPorte, USA Akira Sekikawa Japan EunRyoung Sa Korea Mita Lovalekar India Benjamin Acosta Mexico Eugene Shubnikov Russia Rania Saad Egypt Beatriz Rodriquiz Mexico Faina Linkov USA/Ukraine Soni Dodoni Pakistan Seok-Won Park
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Who will bring about the telepreventive medicine changes?
Ron was in Williamsville as the turbulent times of the 60s were heating up.
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Telepreventive Medicine
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