Supercourse Update - February 2000
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Dear Friends,
We have been contacting many of you, as would like to obtain as many
of the promised lectures during the first 6 months of the year 2000.
We have many lectures promised by Mar. 1, 2000, which is very excit-
ing.
Eun Ryoung from our group suggested that you might want to suggest
lectures that you would like to use on the Supercourse. Please send
back to us suggestions of titles of lectures you would like to see.
We will then send these back out to the faculty to see if people have
a lecture in the file drawer on these topics that they might want to
contribute to the Supercourse.
Benjamin Acosta who works with us is from the Ministry of Health of
Mexico. He recently completed a neat little paper with 7 other mem-
bers of the faculty of the Supercourse titled Scientific Colonialism
and Safari Science. He presented this in a wonderful new information
system created by Tony Delamothe of the British Medical Journal, call
"netprints". In the netprint system you can put up articles for open
review by the world's experts. We encourage that you go visit net-
prints (http://www.bmj.com, click on netprint) and review Benjamin's
paper. Also, it would be great if Epidemiology and Global Health
could be major contributors to the Netprint system.
Lowell Gerson from Ohio and the people there have started an MPH pro-
gram which links together University of Akron, Cleveland State Uni-
versity, Kent State University, NEOUCOM and Youngstown State Univer-
sity. The program is starting to use the Supercourse in its curricu-
lum, with it first being identified as a recommended site, and now
lectures are being incorporated.
We want to obtain as many lectures as possible, as during the summer
we want to push to establish the distribution system. There is a very
good chance that in the next 3-4 months the course will be translated
into Spanish and Portuguese. Once this is done, we can then push the
course into the medical libraries of Latin America with partnership
of BIREME/PAHO. We will also push for the development of mirrored
servers. It is exciting as several of our faculty have been instru-
mental in starting to bring the course into Egypt, and Rwanda. If we
had more of the lectures completed then there would be little diffi-
culty in establishing a distribution network for epidemiology, global
health, and the Internet, that exists for no other network in health.
Again, it must be emphasized that the effort needed to bring your
best lecture up on the Internet, if you have it in PowerPoint is not
large.120-180 minutes. It would be wonderful if you could contribute
a lecture. Also, if you go to a professional meeting, please indicate
to people that you are a member of the Supercourse faculty, and ask
the best speakers to provide a lecture.
Not much is going on in Pittsburgh these days. We are really ready
for spring time.
Eugene Shubnikov from Siberia Russia is coming in a few weeks to
train to become a cyberdoc. We have a rather eclectic group with two
people from the Ministry of Health of Mexico, one from Korea, one
from Japan, one formally from Taiwan, 2 from Western Pennsylvania,
and one from Buffalo. If you are interested in coming for training,
we have no money, but will gladly write letters to try and bring you
here.
Best wishes,
Ron, Deb, Akira, Benjamin, Eun, & Beatriz
mailto:ghnetu+@pitt.edu
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