Janice Dorman, Ph.D.

DirectorMolecular

Epidemiology

Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.

DirectorDisease Monitoring

and Telecommunications

WHO CollaboratingCenter

Aids, Global Warming, Diabetes, TB, Cancer, H1N1

Is the world becoming Healthier?

Global Health, Tipping point = 1949

Ardu4,000,000 BC

Truman1949

Obama2009

<1949Time Frame4,000,000 yearsGain in Life Expectancy20 years

1 year gain in life expectancy took

200,000 years

>1949Time Frame60 yearsGain in Life Expectancy25 years

1 year gain in life expectancy took

2.4 years

Mobile-Global Health = Reaching of Billions of people world wide to improve Global health and prevention using Mobile technology

GLOCAL Health (Global to Local)

What do we need to improve global health?

EffectiveCheapUbiquitousAcceptableSustainable

EffectiveCheapUbiquitousAcceptableSustainable

Large Multidisciplinary Network

Open SourcePowerPoint Lecture

Library

Distribution System to EducatorsContinuous Quality Improvement

Lectures

Network: 46,000 in 172 countries

1,000,000 students taught

Experienced teachers New Educators

                                                          

University of Khartoum, Sudan

Cuttington University, Liberia

Last Biomedical Journal2003

140 Chinese Medical Students

www.supercourse.cn

Institute of Public Health Research Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Disaster Supercourse

Ali Ardalan

For the Supercourse Team

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

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

75 million hits/year

125 publications (including Science, BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med)

Top 11 MedicalPages Lancet

Best of the WebScience Mag.

Top 100PC Magazine

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

Nelson

Mandela

Ali Ardaldin IranSunita Dodani US/PakistanJesse Hung ChinaRonald LaPorte USMita Lovalekar US/IndiaFaina Linkov US/UkraineEric Marler US Nicholas Padilla MexicoKawkab Shishani JordanFrancois Sauer USEugene Shubnikov Russia

Ali SoniJesse

Ron

FainaMita

Nicholas

Kawkab

Francois Eugene

Eric

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