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Using low bandwidth Internet to inexpensively reach large numbers of healthy people to prevent disease
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Janice Dorman, Ph.D. Director Molecular Epidemiology Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D. Director Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications WHO Collaborating Center GSPH
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Ron FainaMita Eugene Akira Rania Eunryoung Tomoko Abed Soni
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If Cars Developed as Same Pace as IT 100,000 mile/hr 250,000 mile/gallon Cost = $5.00
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MOH Ethiopia Uni Pgh Cuba NCI Urra LaPorte Arena Sudan Kebebe World Bank Power of the Internet
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Power of the Internet
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Improved Manufacturing and Distribution of Lectures www.pitt.edu/~super1/
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Language of Science Teacher Resource Global course Library of Lectures Quality Assurance Mirroring
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What is the new global language of science?
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Teacher Resource
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Experienced teachers New Educators
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University of Khartoum, Sudan Cuttington University, Liberia Last Biomedical Journal 1990
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How can we improve Prevention education worldwide? Question: Answer: Get better lectures
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Why don’t we share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?
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15,000 Faculty 151 Countries
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Cuba138 Brazil135 Argentina 95 Peru 94 Columbia 68 Mexico 59 Chile 24 Venezuela 22 Jamaica 6 Guatemala 6 Bolivia 5 Bahamas 4 Honduras 3 West Indies 3 Haiti 2 Guyana 2 St Lucia 1 N= 731
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Reaching the unreached What % of people in the world has access to the Internet? 7%
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Supercourse Mirror Sites 42 Mirrored Sites, MOH India, Egypt, Mongolia, Nepal, Sudan, China, Russia
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Access to 100,000-1,000,000 1000 Lectures Sent to 10,000 prevention experts in 139 Countries
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Future Directions Server Cell phone School TV Development of new information distribution systems in collaboration with Pitt Supercomputer Center Server to Cell phone/PDA to School TV
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Reaching the unreached Shouldn’t the disabled have equal access to science? Should those who primary language is Spanish, or Portuguese have equal access to science?
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1770 Lectures Lecture Status
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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)
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Epidemiologic Research Teaching/ Mentoring
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