Epidemiology Course on the Internet (18)
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Friends,
we are in the process of developing a super-course in epidemiology,
the internet and global health for medical and nursing students. It
will be developed by a large group of people world wide, and provided
for free to medical schools. The program pre-presents a series of
internet/interactive lectures. Instructors in medical schools can use
one lecture or 16 lectures.
In addition we have several leaders to provide specific lectures on
the future of the Internet (John Patrick, VP IBM), cardiovascular
epidemiology (Jaakko Tuolimehto, National Public Health Institute in
Finland), diabetes epidemiology (Peter Bennett, NIH), etc.
The course will be translated into Spanish, Japanese and French.
There is the interest to have this as part of the African distance
education program, and it is being considered to be translated into 4
African languages.
The course will be provided on 3,5 diskettes to interface with the
internet where connections are poor, as well as CDs.
The students from across the world will talk with each other as we
will have discussion groups, as well as global joint projects to
bring the medical students together.
We would like lectures and input from the World Bank and other insti-
tutions interested in Global Health.
It will be used at Jikei University in Tokyo in the spring.
We would very much like people to review the lectures to comment upon
them. All lectures will be peer reviewed.
We are developing this to stimulate discussion among medical stu-
dents, and to show them that epidemiology and public health are not
boring..
Please let us know if you would like to provide input to this course.
Thanks
Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.
Director Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications
WHO Collaborating Center
Professor of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
mailto:RLAPORTE@vms.cis.pitt.edu
http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/GHNet/GHNet.html
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