Epidemiology Course on the Internet (52)
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Friends,
During the past 6 weeks we have been quite busy trying to obtain back-
bone support to keep the supercourse going. We have submitted 6 grants
on the following topics:
- Public Health and the Internet
- NIH Diabetes and the Supercourse: American Diabetes Association
- Insulin Dependent Diabetes and the Supercourse: Juvenile Diabetes
� Foundation
- Public Health and Developing Countries: InfoDev at the World Bank
- Latin American Supercourse: InterAmerican Development Bank/PAHO
- Minority Health Supercourse NIH
During the next 2 months we will likely be submitting at least 2 addi-
tional grants to provide support.
The Lecture Series is developing quickly as well.
We appreciate very much your contribution to providing a lecture for
the Supercourse. Since January, we have ten new lectures up on the web.
We will have another five new lectures upon the web and five revised
versions of the lectures by the end of March.
New lectures which are already up on the supercourse:
'Investigation and Control of Outbreaks of Food-borne Illness' by Ralph
Cordell at CDC, USA
'Why should medical students be interested in Epidemiology' by Rimei
Nishimura at University of Pittsburgh, USA
'Health and Environment in Sustainable Development' by Hiko Tamashiro
at WHO
'Future of the Internet' by John Patrick, VP of IBM, USA
'Cancer Epimdeiology' by Martin Jerry, WHO Collaborating Centre, Canada
'Malaria' by Humberto Guerra at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia,
Peru
'Clinical Trial Concepts' by Claudia Scala Moy at The Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine, USA
'Primary Prevention of Birth Defects' by Eduardo E Castilla at the Na-
tional Research Councils of Argentina and Brazil and Ieda Maria Orioli
at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
'Injury Epidemiology - Introduction' by Thomas Songer at University of
Pittsburgh, Stephan Hargarten at Medical College of Wisconsin, Gary So-
rock at Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, and Susan Standfast, USA
'Injury Epidemiology - Analytic Approach' by Thomas Songer at Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh, Stephan Hargarten at Medical College of Wisconsin,
Gary Sorock at Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, and Susan Standfast, USA
New lectures which will soon be up on the web:
'Viral Hepatitis and Hapatocellular Carcinoma' by Jau-Shin Wu, Taipei
Medical College, Taipei
'Epidemiology of Andean Cutaneous Leishmaniasis' by Bruno F Casanova at
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru Introduction to Molecular
Epidemiology, by Janaice Dorman at University of Pittsburgh, USA
'Epidemiology of Medical Devices' by Mary E. Torrence at FDA
'Diabetes in Latin America' by Ingrid Libman at Children Hospital in
Pittsburgh, USA.
We are moving forward with the peer review which has been quite
successful. We have decided to consider a lecture to be peer reviewed
once 5 reviews are obtained.
We are beginning the peer review process for the lectures that have
been posted for a minimum of one month and have received at least 5 re-
views. If you have provided a lecture and it meets the two criteria
above you will shortly be receiving a file that contains the reviews
that were submitted for your lecture. We would ask that you: 1. revise
your lecture based on the comments from the reviewers and 2. submit the
revised lecture by email within one month.
The revised lecture will then be posted on the web site replacing the
original lecture and will remain for one year. At the end of one year
we will ask that your lecture be revised and updated based on new in-
formation and comments from the students who have taken the course.
We are very excited that our paper on hypertext comic books will be ap-
pearing in the April edition of one of the world's most prestigious
journals, Nature Medicine. Once this comes out we will send to you the
URL to examine the article.
Ron, Akira, and Deb
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Ron LaPorte
Akira Sekikawa
Deb Aaron
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