Supercourse Newsletter, June 30, 2003
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Dear Friends,
By a single thought that comes into mind,
In one moment, a hundred worlds are overturned.
This wonderful poem was by Rumi about 1200AD. It was sent by one of
our faculty in Nepal, Suzy Conway. In many ways it typifies what we
all are doing.
It has been a very active week for the Supercourse. We are preparing
for the final presentation to the Gates-NIH grand challenge. The
beauty of this grand challenge, is it gave us an opportunity to do
things that we have never done before, the Just-in-Time lectures, and
the Golden Lecture.
Women�s Health Supercourse:
Faina Linkov and I will be meeting with representatives of Magee
Women�s Hospital in Pittsburgh on June 23. We will discuss with them
about building a Women�s Health Supercourse which can also serve as
the dissertation for Faina. There are many misconceptions about
women�s health in various areas of the world. We see this as an ex-
cellent opportunity to share knowledge about prevention in the area
of women�s health.
Agriculture:
I met with Jim Diamond, who is the former dean of the School of Agri-
culture at Penn State University. As we talked we realized that agri-
culture and prevention had a lot in common, and that perhaps we could
partner together. Agriculture is advanced in moving knowledge from
research to the field, we are not as advanced moving knowledge into
the classroom, but health is advanced in the use of the Internet.
Perhaps we can link the two together. If you know anything about ag-
riculture, it would be wonderful to start a discussion between these
two disciplines.
WHO Collaborating Centres:
Recently we distributed a letter to many of the WHO Collaborating
centers world wide. We received an enthusiastic response. The WHO
Collaborating centers have agreed to work together to extract the
knowledge from each center in the form of PowerPoint lectures to cre-
ate a WHO CC Supercourse. This is wonderful as the WHO CC are some of
the strongest scientists in global health.
Iraq:
Najeeb Al-Shorbaji from WHO EMRO region indicated to us that he was
going to Iraq to help re-build the public health infrastructure. He
will be providing CDs of the Supercourse to the libraries in Iraq. I
am very pleased we have had the chance to help.
Wish us luck in getting the Gates Challenge. We have done all we
could. The Gates Challenge is at:
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec10431/index.htm
Remember to add to your signature: Supercourse Faculty
(www.pittt.edu/~super1/)
Best Regards:
Supercourse Faculty (www.pitt.edu/~super1/)
Ron, Faina, Mita, Eugene, Akira, Abed, Manel, Raina, Sherine, Wendy,
Beatriz, Julia, Suze, Akram, Tomoko
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu
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