BA Supercourse 2009 Label Global Health and Prevention Lectures
The background picture is the library of Alexandria. The top has two urls where it can be found www.bibalex.org/supercourse wwww.pitt.edu/~super1/ with Supercourse logo. In the middle are the logos of Biblioteca Alexandrina and WHO Collaborating Centre, Uni. of Pittsburgh. The bottom says: The distribution of this DVD is made possible by the generous support of SDC. Supercourse The Supercourse lectures overview the World of Global Health. It is a free gift that is meant to be given A Global Health Network consisting of more than: 64,000 Faculty Members, 174 Countries, 3600 Lectures (for DVD) and about 1000 lectures(for CD).
Please copy for all Medical and Public Health Students
Page 1 Bibliotheca Alexandrina Supercourse of Global Health and Prevention www.pitt.edu/~super1 www.bibalex.org Our mission is to improve world health by improving Global Health and Prevention training with sharing lectures. The Supercourse consists of: 1. Information Sharing using an Open Source Model: Our Global faculty shares their best, slides/lectures on prevention. The experienced faculty member can beef up their lectures. New instructors reduce preparation time with better lectures. Faculty in developing countries have current prevention information. 2. Educate and “Empower” Educators: Teachers world wide create their own lectures using Supercourse top quality slides and lectures. 3. Faculty: Twenty Nobel Prize winners, 60 IOM members and other top people contributed lectures. Gil Omenn, AAAS former president, Vint Cerf, the father of the Internet, Elias Zerhouni, head of NIH, etc. , Ala Alwan, Asst. Director NCD, at WHO and many others contributed lectures. 4. Mirrored Servers and CDs: We have 45 mirrored servers in Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia and others. 5. Lectures Teaching a Million: In the last 12 months we taught over 1,000,000 students with our lectures.. 6. JIT Lectures: We created scholarly disaster lectures within days after the Bam Earthquake, Rita, Pakistan Earthquake and Avian Flu and reached >200,000. 7. Legacy Lectures: We are collecting the best of the best lectures from Nobel Prize winners, members of the IOM, NAS, and American Epidemiologic Society.
8. Library of Alexandria Supercourse of Science: We are ramping up to collect the best lectures of science. 9. Medical and Public Health students: We are providing a CD to all medical and Public Health students in the 1700 medical and public health schools. 10. Productivity: We have published over 170 papers in Science, Nature, Nature Medicine etc.
Page 2 Instructions for Supercourse DVD What is the Supercourse? The Supercourse is on online library of over 3600 lectures on global health and prevention created by over 64,000 faculty from 174 countries. How do I use the Supercourse DVD 1. Insert DVD 2. Click on “My computer” and select DVD Drive 3. Find out index.htm file to start working if it is didn’t run automatically How do I copy the Supercourse for others? The DVD is a gift that is meant to me be given; we expect that in accepting it you will make at least 5 copies for other students and faculty. The lectures are free to copy for others. How do I join the supercourse network? Email us at super1@pitt.edu or visit our on-line form at www.pitt.edu/~super1/assist/join.htm Page 3 Guideline for DVD Utilization 2009 The DVD is for the person use of individual scientists and shared without restriction among scientists and teachers. If one uses a Supercourse slide or lecture, the author of the lecture and the Supercourse itself should be acknowledge. The content and its accuracy are solely determined by the authors of the lectures. Supercourse Developers, WHO collaborating centre Library of Alexandria Supercourse: The Supercourse DVD represents 3600 lectures about global health and prevention. We encourage all those interested in Global Health and prevention to use the slides and lectures from the Supercourse to learn, research and teach about global health.