Supercourse Newsletter, November 19, 2003
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Dear Friends:
During the last few weeks we have added almost 4,000 people to
the Supercourse. We are exploding, it is very exciting. It is im-
portant to say briefly what we are all about. Our Supercourse
family is designed to improve the health of the world by working
together in the area of telepreventive medicine. Telepreventive
medicine represents the use of the Internet to reach large num-
bers of health people world wide to prevent the development of
disease. We are now about 14,000 strong. The major product of our
group is the �Supercourse� at the URL above. This represents a
collection of cutting edge point lectures that are �copy left�.
This means that the authors own their lectures but agree to allow
others world wide to use the lectures in their teaching, presen-
tations and learning.
The major increase in the numbers of people represent faculty in
universities who are not directly in public health, e.g. psychol-
ogy, biology, religious studies, etc. who are bringing a diver-
sity of expertise to the problem of global health. We thank eve-
ryone who has come on board.
Lecture Explosion also:
Eugene just reported that we now have 1,551 lectures. This is a
jump from 1,522 lectures on Nov. 5. Twenty nine lectures in 13
days is amazing, one of the largest increments that we have seen.
The lectures are wonderful. Eugene has been extremely busy in
processing these lectures.
School of Public Health Explosion:
During the last few weeks we have been having major discussions
with various people on our list. In Arab/Muslim countries, there
are over 300 medical schools, but no schools of public health, in
Africa there are few schools of public health and in most areas
across the world there numbers of schools of public health is
very small. It is very exciting as 4 countries have expressed an
interest with working with us to build a School of Public Health
on top of our telepreventive medicine network. It is very excit-
ing that in the next few years, the Supercourse network might be
responsible for a string of Schools of Public Health world wide.
We will let you know as to this evolution. Wouldn�t it be grand
for you to have a new school of public health in your country?
Nursing and the Supercourse
Several nurses and nursing schools have contacted us concerning
building more prevention into nursing training.
Quality control and the Supercourse:
Faina has just submitted a paper describing our results concern-
ing quality control in the Supercourse. If you would like to have
a copy please send her a note - mailto:fyl1@pitt.edu
Who would have ever believed that we would be �building� schools
of public health worldwide. Isn�t that a buzz!!!
The Steelers lost last night, sigh�There were a good team�.when�
We have had a huge outbreak of Hepatitis A just outside of Pitts-
burgh. It has killed 3 people, and sickened 510. We were not set
up to do a just in time lecture, darn it.
Who wants to be the dean of the school of public health in Ant-
arctica?
Two vultures board an airplane, each carrying two dead raccoons.
The stewardess looks at them and says, "I'm sorry, gentlemen,
only one carrion allowed per passenger." (pun of the day)
Best regards,
Ron, Soni, Mita, Faina, Eugene, Akira, Abed, Wendy, Arin,
Charles, Fred, Tomoko, Seok-Won
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu
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