1. NIH Supercourse ?? Supercourse Team www.pitt.edu/~super1/ Developed by the Global Health Network Supercourse team in Pittsburgh

2. NIH Health Reform Act, 2006 Sept. 26 The bill would also require the Director of the NIH to: …Establish an electronic data base to track research activity…

3. NIH Mission Statement … directs programs for the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information.

4. NIH Supercourse Goals Bridge Between research and classroom Improve NIH’s National and Global Transparency e-Recruiting of students into Science and the NIH Taxpayer Accountability

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

6. ResearchEducation Symbiotic Relationship of Research and Education Circle of Science

7. How can we improve science and education worldwide? Question: Answer: Get better lectures

8. Why don’t scientists share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?

9. Helping Teachers Empowering, not Replacing the teacher

10. 38,000 Faculty 4000 from Developing Countries 7000 Universities 152 Countries

11. Lectures

12. Authors of Lectures 20 Nobel Prize Winners 300 National Academy of Science NIH Director US Surgeon General Ministers of Health Former CDC Director Head of AAAS

13. 120 countries 400,000 students Just in Time Lectures

14. University of Khartoum, Sudan Cuttington University, Liberia Last Biomedical Journal 1990

16. Supercourse Mirror Sites 42 Mirrored Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia, Russia

17. Beginnings of NIH Supercourse 13 Institutes, 65 lectures http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/NIH/nih-legacy.htm

18. NIH Supercourse Goals Bridge Between research and classroom Improve NIH’s National and Global Transparency e-Recruiting of students into Science and the NIH Taxpayer Accountability

19. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller

20. For more information, please contact Supercourse developers: Ronald LaPorte, PhD ronlaporte@aol.comronlaporte@aol.com Faina Linkov, PhD fyL1@pitt.edufyL1@pitt.edu Eugene Shubnikov, MD eshubn@gmail.comeshubn@gmail.com Mita Lovalekar, MD mital@pitt.edumital@pitt.edu