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

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

3. Ron FainaMita Eugene Akira Rania Eunryoung Tomoko Abed Soni

4. If Cars Developed as Same Pace as IT 100,000 mile/hr 250,000 mile/gallon Cost = $5.00

5. MOH Ethiopia Uni Pgh Cuba NCI Urra LaPorte Arena Sudan Kebebe World Bank Power of the Internet

6. Power of the Internet

7. Improved Manufacturing and Distribution of Lectures www.pitt.edu/~super1/

8. Language of Science Teacher Resource Global course Library of Lectures Quality Assurance Mirroring

9. What is the new global language of science?

10. Teacher Resource

11. Experienced teachers New Educators

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

13. How can we improve Prevention education worldwide? Question: Answer: Get better lectures

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

15. 15,000 Faculty 151 Countries

16. 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

18. Reaching the unreached What % of people in the world has access to the Internet? 7%

20. Supercourse Mirror Sites 42 Mirrored Sites, MOH India, Egypt, Mongolia, Nepal, Sudan, China, Russia

21. Access to 100,000-1,000,000 1000 Lectures Sent to 10,000 prevention experts in 139 Countries

22. 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

23. 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?

24. 1770 Lectures Lecture Status

26. 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)

28. Epidemiologic Research Teaching/ Mentoring