1 Global Health, so Far, so Near

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

3 What do we need to improve global health? Effective Cheap Ubiquitous Acceptable Sustainable

4 Effective Cheap Ubiquitous Acceptable Sustainable

5 Large Multidisciplinary Network Open Source PowerPoint Lecture Library Distribution System to Educators Continuous Quality Improvement

6 Lectures Network: 46,000 in 172 countries

7 Global Training in Public Health Number trained/ year in SPHs <10,000 Supercourse trained last year = 6,000,000 H1N1 lecture = 50,000,000

Supercourse Faculty in Europe Albania 2Andorra 1 Armenia 8Belarus7 Belgium 35Bosnia & Herzovina3 Bulgaria 19Croatia 18 Cyprus 5Czech Rep. 20 Denmark 38Estonia 5 Finland 42 France 124 Georgia 23 Germany 179 Greece 15Hungary 11 Iceland 6Ireland 30 Italy 103Latvia 7 Liechtenstein 2Luxembourg 49 Macedonia 20 Malta 3 Moldavia 9Netherlands 383 Norway 89Poland 96 Portugal 38 Romania 36 Russia 110Scotland 10 Serbia 2Slovak Rep. 7 Slovakia 3Slovenia 6 Spain 195Sweden 278 Switzerland 117Turkey 38 Ukraine 38 UK 873 Vatican City1

9 nanos gigantum humeris insidentes Standing on the shoulders of Giants

10 JHU Tokyo U. MOH Mexico LaPlata Chenni Moscow State. Beijing Cambridge Uni South Carolina Theran U Medical Schools Public Health Nursing Agriculture Ministries of Health National Libraries

11 What is the most important educational Technology of the 21 st century? On the web

12 Institute of Public Health Research Tehran University of Medical Sciences Disaster Supercourse Ali Ardalan For the Supercourse Team

13 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

14 Lectures in 10 hrs, Translated Into Japanese and 11 other languages Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear lectures First Scientific lecture on disaster Leading Japan Disaster lecture Japan JIT

15 Supercourse Mirror Sites Mirrored Servers in 80 countries Egypt, Mozambique, Iran, China, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Israel

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

18 There are 1.5 cell phones for every European There is one cell phone for every 2.4 people in Africa In 2 years the number of cell phones will equal the number of people. There are more cell phones then toothbrushes

19 Eugene Shubnikov, M.D. Russia Skype Snapshot

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24 Directory of Apps for Global Health and Science

25 EPIDEMIOLOGY.url Apple App Store Downloads on iTunes-- Medical - A thru Z.url e.g. Epidemic: the Past, Present and Future of the Diseases that Made Us Epidemiology and Biostatistics Epidemiology Glossary EpidemRisk Epidemiology and Biostatistics - iPhone Apps Plus.url iPhone Apps - Epidemiology and Biostatistics.url Top 25 BlackBerry Apps for Public Health Professionals.url Top 25 Google Android Apps for Public Health Professionals.url 50 Excellent Public Health Web Sites Worth Bookmarking.url Department of Health and Human Services releases first Public Health app for patients iMedicalApps.url Ushahidi apps uses Crowdmapping to collect instant public health data iMedicalApps.url Public Health News for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store.url Track bed bugs with new iPhone app ajc.com.url 5-Minute Colon Test Slashes Deaths - Courant.com.url Api-demiology

26 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

27 Ali Ardaldin Iran Sunita Dodani US/Pakistan Jesse Hung China Ronald LaPorte US Mita Lovalekar US/India Faina Linkov US/Ukraine Eric Marler US Nicholas Padilla Mexico Kawkab Shishani Jordan Francois Sauer US Eugene Shubnikov Russia Ali Soni Jesse Ron Faina Mita Nicholas Kawkab Francois Eugene Eric

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

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