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Janice Dorman, Ph.D. Director Molecular Epidemiology Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D. Director Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications WHO Collaborating Center
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Aids, Global Warming, Diabetes, TB, Cancer, H1N1 Is the world becoming Healthier?
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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
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Mobile-Global Health = Reaching of Billions of people world wide to improve Global health and prevention using Mobile technology
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GLOCAL Health (Global to Local)
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What do we need to improve global health? Effective Cheap Ubiquitous Acceptable Sustainable
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Effective Cheap Ubiquitous Acceptable Sustainable
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Large Multidisciplinary Network Open Source PowerPoint Lecture Library Distribution System to Educators Continuous Quality Improvement
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Lectures Network: 46,000 in 172 countries 1,000,000 students taught
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Experienced teachers New Educators
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University of Khartoum, Sudan Cuttington University, Liberia Last Biomedical Journal 2003
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140 Chinese Medical Students www.supercourse.cn
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Institute of Public Health Research Tehran University of Medical Sciences Disaster Supercourse Ali Ardalan For the Supercourse Team
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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
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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
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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
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
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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
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www.pitt.edu/~super1/ super1@Pitt.edu
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