Supercourse Newsletter, February 14, 2001
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Dear Friends:
Sabianet: Several exciting events are occurring. A major concern of
ours has been how to retain the Supercourse, and its unique global
nature of global shareware. We have an NIH grant, but this will not
last forever. It will be difficult to sustain our not-for-profit Su-
percourse, no matter how much we love it. We have decided to estab-
lish a for profit company, that compliment the not-for-profit Super-
course. We thus do not commercialize this global effort, but rather
work to expand into different areas of internet based prevention in
to support the supercourse. The company is called Sabianet, which
means Wisdom Net in Spanish. As this evolves, we will tell you more
and more about it. Hopefully it will be a success, if so, we can con-
tinue the Supercourse and keep it free for a long time.
Internet-Prevention meeting: We have decided to develop the first
global meeting on the Internet and Prevention in Washington at the
end of July. If you are interested in finding out more about this,
please contact us. The concept is simple, we want to bring together
the global leaders in the Internet, and the global leaders in Preven-
tion. Already, Vint Cerf, the father of the Internet has agreed to
present. In addition, Major General Randy Randolph, the assistant
surgeon general of the USAF will present as well. Jeff Koplan, M.D.,
the head of the CDC will be teaching in Tom Songer's and my (REL)
class next week. We have asked him if he will present. Also, we know
Sir George Alleyne, the Director General of the Pan American Health
Organization. The meeting likely will be at the Pan American Health
Organization. We have just begun to recruit people to present. We
will contact heads of major Internet companies to have them present
as well. We would like to have Ministries of Health to come to talk.
We want this to be an exciting meeting, a "thinking out of the box"
meeting. We would love to have suggestions from you as to what might
be included. Obviously we want to have some of it on line so everyone
can see, and can contribute. Many of your have had experiences with
this, and we would like to learn from you.
Kazakhstan: Our network is very powerful, and most interesting. We
got a note from someone at the State Department who is working to
strengthen the public health backbone in the former Soviet Union. He
is going to Kazakhstan in the next few days, and wanted to distribute
CDs of the Supercourse there. On exactly the day we received this
note from the State Department, two centers in Kazakhstan indicated
that they were already distributing the materials. We told the State
Department people that we beat them, and our network was stronger
than theirs!!! Isn't that wild. The scientists in Kazakhstan will
meet the State Department people and tell them about the Supercourse.
Russia and CDC: There has been exceptional interest in CDC. Paul
Siegel is developing a wonderful program in Russia on public health.
He is talking with Eugene Shubnikov about how to partner with us. We
received a very nice note from the developers of EpiInfo discussing
how we can bring parts of EpiInfo into the format of the Supercourse.
EpidInfo gets well over a million hits a year. We are thinking that
we can add the Supercourse lectures into EpiInfo, and we could add
EpiInfo into our CDs. What do you think?
In addition, the following Supercourse lectures were opened this
week:
1. Treatment Strategies for 5-8 Year Old Children Who Stutter by J.
Scott Yaruss
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2461/index.htm
2. Interactions between Language and Stuttering -Part I- by J. Scott
Yaruss
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2471/index.htm
3. Interactions between Language and Stuttering -Part II- by J. Scott
Yaruss
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2481/index.htm
4. Prevention of Communication Disorders by Ellen Cohen
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2371/index.htm
5. Monitoring the Health and Well-Being of a Disadvantaged Minority
Group: Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples by
Joan Cunningham
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2441/index.htm
6. Influenza: Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control - 3rd revision -
by Tom Chin
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec0652/index.htm
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Ron, Akira, Eugene, Eun Ryoung, Benjamin, Faina, Fan, Tom, Deb, Ying,
Yuefang
mailto:super3+@pitt.edu
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