Transcript How can we avoid the

Good to Great
Building a Great Global Health Center
The Birth of a new discipline:
Telepreventive Medicine
Telepreventive
Medicine:
The application of low
bandwidth, inexpensive,
systems to large numbers
of healthy individuals to
prevent disease.
Yamey, 2004
International Health
International health refers to the
interlocking and interrelated health
status of people throughout the
world and to efforts to improve the
health of all people of every country.
Last, Foege
“To go from good to great requires
transcending the core of competence”
Good to Great
Philosophy
History
Current Efforts
Global Pittsburgh
“You can accomplish anything in
life provided you do not mind who
gets the credit”
Harry S. Truman
What can we best improve
Global Health?
Prevent Multiple diseases
Apply in many places world wide
Proven Effectiveness
Cheap, Cheap, Cheap
Sustainable
Education is the most
powerful weapon
which you can use to
change the world.
Nelson Mandela
A global interdisciplinary research crossroads
An International Research Incubator
A place where scientists help scientists
A system of scientific knowledge translation
from research to the classroom
WHO Collaborating
Center
Janice Dorman, Ph.D.
Director
Molecular Epidemiology
Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.
Director
Disease Monitoring and
Telecommunications
GSPH
Pittsburgh
GHNet
On-going Projects
Supercourse
Just-in-time lectures
Olympic Lectures
Pakistan
Former Soviet Union
Faina
Mita
Ron
Eugene
Eunryoung
Soni
Akira
Abed
Monica
Rania
Ezzeldeen
Question:
How can we improve
Prevention education
worldwide?
Answer:
Get better lectures
Why don’t we share our
exciting PowerPoint lectures
for free?
15,500 Faculty
151 Countries
Supercourse Mirror Sites
42 Mirrored Sites,
MOH India, Egypt, Mongolia, Nepal,
Sudan, China, Russia
1000 Lectures
Sent to 10,000
prevention experts
in 139 Countries
Access to
100,000-1,000,000
Lecture Status
1874 Lectures
20,000 students x 5 yrs.
100,000 students trained
$1000/100,000
Joshua Lederberg
(1958)
Baruch S. Blumberg
(1976)
Gunter Blobel
(1999)
Nobel Prize Laureates in the Supercourse
(Medicine)
Eric R. Kandel
(2000)
Paul Greengard
(2000)
Paul C Lauterbur
(2003)
Gil Omenn, MD
President AAAS
6 lectures
Richard Carmona, M.D.
Surgeon General
Jeff Koplan, MD
Former Head, CDC
+ All CDC lectures
60 IOM
Members
School of Public Health
International Programs
AIDS
Building Capacity
Child Health
Community health
Demography
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Health Promotion
Health and Security
Health Sector Reform
Infectious disease
Nutrition
Occupational health
Reproductive health
Violence
Women’s health
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19 Existing SPH
International Centers
Good
One disease
Uni-disciplinary
Small numbers of countries
Little R01 support
Not sustainable
American Perspective
Policy Oriented
Multiple disease research
Multidisciplinary
Many countries
R01 support Focus
Sustainable
Global Perspective
Policy Oriented
Eric Noji, M.D.
CDC
Bam Earthquake in Iran
Ali Aldadan, M.D.
Tehran, Iran
Physical Activity & Health
This lecture has been dedicated to
Olympics games in Athens, Greece
Aug 13-29, 204
By Supercourse Team
Supercourse: www.pitt.edu/~super1/
Prepared by Dr. Soni Dodani
Reach 90% of the world’s countries
(172) with a single lecture
Teach a million about Physical Activity
and Health
Pedro Urra
The SC has also become a model
for production and dissemination
of health information in Cuba as
you can see in the Cuban site in
http://bvs.sld.cu/sc/. The SC is
much more that a web site, it is a
philosophy and a model of health
promotion using ICT with very
rational use of resources.
National Supercourse
Top 11 Medical
Pages Lancet
75 million hits/year
150 publications
(including 32 in BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med)
Top 100
PC Magazine
Looking into the Future
Global Pittsburgh
World
Pittsburgh
“…focusing on what you
potentially do better than
any organization is the only
path to greatness”
Helping at the
Global research
Crossroads
Issues at the crossroads
How do we find partners?
How do we find interdisciplinary scientists with common interest?
How can we work with governments?
How can we create a win-win environment?
How can we avoid scientific imperialism?
How can we avoid the “All things are possible with American
Money syndrome”?
How can we be fair to all?
How can be build a sustainable program
What are the ethics of collaboration?
How can we establish a research design/statistical global help
desk
How can we build globalization of training?
How can we find funding?
How do we determine authorship/credit?
How can we translate our information to the world?
Stepping Stones to Global Pittsburgh
~10 NIH R01 grants with foreign
components
>15,500 global collaborators
321 Pitt Faculty already in the Supercourse
Pittsburgh wants to be “World Class”
Collaborators, Nursing School, UCIS, SHRS,
SIS
Potential, UPMC, Bayer, CMU, Chatham,
Heinz
Existing Global certificate program (developer =
Dr. Karol)
Building a Global Pittsburgh
Scientific Crossroad
Network International Researchers first
Pittsburgh, then globally
Connect those in Pittsburgh with those
world wide
Build a global research help desk to
facilitate research, Design development,
data collection, data analysis and
interpretation
Establish a MPH and Ph.D. program in
International Health Research
Potential Funding Sources
Tuition
Summer program
NIH (Environmental Health, NLM,
R25, AIDs)
CDC
US AID
Joint Training
IREX