1. Targeting chronic disease problem in Mexico with Latin American Supercourse Dr. Nicolas Padilla-Raygoza University of Guanajuato Campus Celaya Salvatierra raygosan@ugto.mx

2. Latin American countries Main NCD’s Heart disease and stroke Cancer Chronic respiratory disease Diabetes WHO. Package of essential non-communicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care in low-resource settings, 2008.

3. Latin American countries Public health solutions for prevention and control NCD’s Tobacco prevention Physical activity Healthy foods Education WHO. Package of essential non-communicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care in low-resource settings, 2008.

4. Global Health Network Supercourse The Global Health Network Supercourse project began at the end 1990’s Main objective: to empower public health teachers around the world More than 50,000 faculty 174 countries 4,855 lectures

7. Distribution by languages of visitors of Supercourse lectures 2009-2010 LanguageCountryn% EnglishUSA206,34880.2 SpanishLatin American countries7,1332.8 EnglishGreat Britain6,6022.6 EnglishOther countries4,2671.7 ChineseTaiwan2,9341.1 ChinesePopular Republic China2,7821.1 FrancoisFrance2,6101.0 GermanGermany2,4120.9 SpanishSpain2,3440.9 RussianRussia2,2070.9 OtherOther countries17,7646.8 Total257,403100.0

9. Latin American Supercourse It began 4 years ago More than 1,000 health professionals More than 500 lectures in Spanish Quality evaluation higher than 4 (out of 5). To offer Spanish speaking health professionals lectures of high quality from leaders in health.

11. Latin American Supercourse More than 40,000 Webpage visits in four years. Peaks of Webpage access after of each newsletter. Great peak of Webpage access after the launched of Influenza A (H1N1) lecture.

12. Professor in Mexico Professor in Quito Professor in Cali Professor in Buenos Aires Professor in San Salvador Supercourse model: sharing lectures Professor in USA

13. Visits to LatinAmerican Supercourse Web Page by Area Arean% Epidemiology85923.1 Nursing73619.8 Global health45912.3 Public health3669.8 Addictions3018.1 Cardiovascular diseases2747.4 Disasters2576.8 Cancer2115.7 Nutrition and obesity1534.1 Diabetes1072.9 Total3,723100.0

14. Latin American Supercourse Who use it? Teachers and students from Schools of Nursing or Medicine Nurses Epidemiologists Medical doctors Our global health network include all of them.

15. Latin American Supercourse Quality evaluation Our network evaluate the lectures in scale from 1 (bad) to 5 (excellent) in 5 parameters: Content (4.86±0.52)* Relevance (4.87±0.48)* Quality of presentation (4.84±0.59)* Global rate (4.89±0.44)* Expected quality (4.81±0.59)* * 6,000 evaluations

16. Just-In-Time lectures

17. An example of the usefulness of the Latin American Supercourse April 16-23, 2009 News on Influenza A(H1N1) influenza cases in Mexico. April 26, 2009 Rashid A. Chotani, wrote first version in English After 4 hours in Spanish and Russian. Updated lecture each 24 hours, by ten days, Translated in 14 languages.

18. CHOTANI © 2009. Version 1 Issued: 4/26/2009 11:55 PM. The lecture will be updated daily Rashid A. Chotani, MD, MPH, DTM Profesor Asistente Adjunto Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (HSUHS) 240-367-5370 chotani@gmail.com Conferencia Justo-en-Tiempo Brote de Influenza porcina A (H1N1) en EUA y México: Potencial para una Pandemia Domingo, 26 de Abril del 2009

19. Conclusion The LatinAmerican Supercourse is successful It is a very important tool to health teachers It is a very cheaper tool to continuous education in health. It is a very inexpensive tool to improve training in Latin America

20. Thank you!! http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/index.htm http://www.feoc.ugto.mx/super/curso.php