Using low bandwidth Internet to inexpensively reach large numbers of healthy people to prevent disease

Janice Dorman, Ph.D.DirectorMolecular Epidemiology

Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.DirectorDisease Monitoring and Telecommunications

WHO CollaboratingCenter

GSPH

Ron Faina Mita

Eugene Akira Rania

Eunryoung TomokoAbed

Soni

If Cars Developed as Same Pace as IT

100,000 mile/hr 250,000 mile/gallon Cost = $5.00

            

MOH Ethiopia

Uni Pgh Cuba

NCI

UrraLaPorte

Arena

Sudan

Kebebe

World BankWorld Bank

Power of theInternet

Power of theInternet

Improved Manufacturing and Distribution of Lectures

www.pitt.edu/~super1/

Language of Science

Teacher Resource

Global course

Library of Lectures

Quality Assurance

Mirroring

What is the new global language of science?

TeacherResource

Experienced teachers New Educators

                                                          

University of Khartoum, Sudan

Cuttington University, Liberia

Last Biomedical Journal1990

How can we improve Prevention education

worldwide?

Question:

Answer:

Get better lectures

Why don’t we share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?

15,000 Faculty

151 Countries

Cuba 138Brazil 135Argentina 95Peru 94Columbia 68Mexico 59Chile 24Venezuela 22Jamaica 6Guatemala 6Bolivia 5Bahamas 4Honduras 3West Indies 3Haiti 2Guyana 2St Lucia 1

N= 731

Reaching the unreached

What % of people in the world has access to the Internet?

7%

Supercourse Mirror Sites

42 Mirrored Sites,MOH India, Egypt, Mongolia, Nepal,

Sudan, China, Russia

Access to 100,000-1,000,000

1000 Lectures

Sent to 10,000 prevention experts

in 139 Countries

Future DirectionsServer

Cell phone

School TV

Development of new information distribution systems in collaboration with Pitt Supercomputer

Center

Server to Cell phone/PDA to School TV

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?

1770 Lectures

Lecture Status

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)

EpidemiologicResearch

Teaching/Mentoring