Supercourse Newsletter November 8, 2002
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Dear Friends,
We are busily working away to prepare the BEST 1,000 lecture CD,
truly an amazing accomplishment by you, epidemiology and global pre-
vention. We actually will have about 1,025 lectures to distribute to
139 countries. We want you to snowball the Supercourse. This means
that when you get it, throw it like a snowball to your friends so
that the knowledge of prevention comes out like a wave from you to
your students, faculty, and young children. Snowballing even works in
Haiti, Saudi Arabia, and Bombay, not just in Siberia and Buffalo, NY.
We are going to have a form filling out party next week as there are
10,000 custom forms to be completed, we will all join, and hope that
you can also!!.
Epi Info:
The 1,000 lecture CD will also include something extra special AT NO
COST!!! Several people have written back to us saying that in their
countries they have had difficulty in downloading Epi Info. We looked
and we had room on our disk for Epi Info, so all of you will be able
to have this, for free. We thank the folk at CDC for helping us out.
So, not only will you all be able to learn from lectures, you will be
able to COMPUTE using Epi Info. Epi Info, for those of you who do not
know, is freeware produced by CDC. It is a set of programs for health
research including statistical, research, forms etc. For most epide-
miologic studies Epi Info helps you to set up and analyze data. If
you do not have statistical software, it is great, and it is free, so
please distribute this to as many people as possible.
Library of Alexandria Supercourse:
We are making considerable progress in developing a Library of Alex-
andria Supercourse. A major issue is whether we can make this acces-
sible to those who cannot see, or those who cannot read. This indeed
appears to be possible. Vint Cerf, as well as experts in disability
access, Mike Burks, and Ellen Cohn. It will be exciting to see how we
can reach the unreached.
Happy Ramadan:
We wish all of our Muslim friends in the Supercourse (~3-400) a Happy
Ramadan.
We got a full course:
Nigel Paneth, M.D. from Michigan State University sent to us a full
course on Epidemiology. This can be found on the Supercourse Site. It
is beautiful!!! And very nice to use. Thanks so much Nigel!
Please take the opportunity to present about the supercourse in your
institution, and your country.
When writing to any member of the supercourse - we have a rule -
please call us by our first names, ron, akira, faina, soni, etc. We
do not care if you are a student, or the MOH, we are a very informal
lot, and like to be called by our first names. We do this for a pur-
pose, we see the Supercourse as ours collectively, with us all being
equal. You cannot be equal if one person is called, Herr Doctor, Pro-
fessor, King Ron (hmmm, that does not sound too bad!!) - so, we ask
permission to call you by your first name, and we ask that you call
us by our first names.
Best Regards from Pittsburgh:
If you would like to talk with me (ron), I would love to talk with
you, just send a message at <ronlaporte@aol.com>
Herr Professor Ron, Queen Faina, MOH Akira, Director Eugene, Princess
Mita, Dr. Soni, Assistant Director Rania, CEO Julia, CIO Beatriz, COO
Tom, Dean Abed, President Deb
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu
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