1. 11 Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D. Pittsburgh Faina Linkov, Ph.D. Pittsburgh Eugene Shubnikov, M.D. Novosibirsk, Russia

2. 2 “Small changes may have little effect until they build up to critical mass, then the next small change may suddenly change everything. this is the tipping point.” Tipping Point

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4. 4 Janice Dorman, Ph.D. Director Molecular Epidemiology Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D. Director Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications WHO Collaborating Center

5. 5 GLOCAL Health (Global to Local)

6. 6 For every Epidemiologist there are 240 Clinicians

7. 77 Large Multidisciplinary Network Open Source PowerPoint Lecture Library Distribution System to Educators Continuous Quality Improvement

8. 88 nanos gigantum humeris insidentes Standing on the shoulders of Giants

9. 99 JHU Tokyo U. MOH Mexico LaPlata Chenni Moscow State. Beijing Cambridge Uni South Carolina Tehran U Medical Schools Public Health Nursing Agriculture Ministries of Health National Libraries

10. 10 Growth of Faculty: Tipping Point

11. 11 What is the most important educational Technology of the 21 st century? On the web

12. 12 Lectures Network: 56,000 in 172 countries

13. University of Pittsburgh 894 UPMC 292 Number of Pitt lectures 431 Aaron, Bayles, Cauley, Evans, Haggerty, Johnson, Kinzel, Kip, Kriska, Kuller, LaPorte, Ness, Newman, Orchard, Sekikawa, Songer, Sutton-Tyrell, Talbot, Weissfeld, Zborowski

15. 15 CountriesParticipants 17256,000 1923500 43 <500 (8,500 total) Comparing Supercourse, WHO and CDC

16. 16 100 fold increase in people trained in global health in the last 2 years 50 million people taught with one lecture

17. 17 75 million hits/year 150 publications (including Science, BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med) Top 11 Medical Pages Lancet Best of the Web Science Mag. Top 100 PC Magazine

18. 18 Mobile Global health and App-demiology Future of Epidemiology

19. 19 The Lancet, Volume 378, Issue 9790, Pages 464 - 465, 6 August 2011 What is the future of epidemiology? Raj Bhopal a, Gary J Macfarlane b, William Cairns Smith c, Robert West d, on behalf of the Management Executive Committee for the XIX World Congress of EpidemiologyVolume 378, Issue 9790 Raj BhopalaGary J MacfarlanebWilliam Cairns Smithc Robert Westd “Increasing global connectivity has facilitated the development of epidemiology through open access to electronic publication databases, sharing of research tools, and knowledge exchange through interactive websites and discussion lists. Supercourse,2 a dynamic repository of lectures on epidemiology and global health, is an excellent example of this global connectivity.”2

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22. 22 What do we need to improve global health? Effective Cheap Ubiquitous Acceptable Sustainable Creative

23. 23 Effective Cheap Ubiquitous Acceptable Sustainable Creative

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30. 30 One segment which I feel we need to reach out first, are schools all over Pakistan but particularly in cities like Lahore and Islamabad who experienced earthquake but fortunately escaped with out major damage. These young minds are also affected by the stories of hundreds of young students who have lost their lives in other areas. We look forward to your help in this regard. Khawar

31. 31 The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. FDR, 1937 Fears are educated into us & can, if we wish, be educated out. — Karl A. Menninger

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36. 36 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

37. 37 Institute of Public Health Research Tehran University of Medical Sciences Disaster Supercourse Ali Ardalan For the Supercourse Team

38. 38 Lectures in 10 hrs, Translated Into Japanese and 11 other languages Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear lectures First Scientific lecture on disaster Leading Japan Disaster lecture Japan JIT

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40. 40 “Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well- being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”

41. 41 Health Definition Going Viral: 70 translations Distributed to: 56,000 network All deans of schools of Medicine, Public health Nursing, Pharmacy All medical and Public Health country programs 1.2 Million Medical Students

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44. 44 Ali Ardaldin Iran Sunita Dodani US/Pakistan Meredith Hennon US 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 Meredith

45. 45 Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

46. 46 www.pitt.edu/~super1/ super1@Pitt.edu