Strategic Plan: Building a Library of Alexandria-OIC-US Supercourse

Strategic Plan:Building a Library of Alexandria-OIC-US Supercourse

Supercourse-Library of Alexandria TeamRonald E. LaPorte, Ph.D., Gilbert Omenn, M.D., Ph.D.

Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D. Vint Cerf, Ph.D.

Francois Sauer, M.D.

Medicine“the art concerned in preserving healthy bodies, in combating disease, and restoring health to the sick”

841-926 AD

Global Health

Supercourse

Faculty in all countries working

together to improve global health through

improving prevention education

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Iran

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Why don’t scientists and educators share our most exciting PowerPoint slides and lectures on Prevention on the Internet for free?

55,000 Faculty

173 Countries

Lectures

>1,000,000 students taught

620 Members Pakistani Supercourse

Dr. Dodani

Supercourse Mirror Sites

42 Mirrored Sites,MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia, Russia

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

1338 OIC members in the Supercourse team from 48 countries

Afghanistan 6Albania 2Algeria 1Azerbaijan 28Bahrain 7Bangladesh 16Brunei Darussalam 1Burkina Faso 3Cameroon 14Cote D’Ivorie 2Egypt 104Gabon 1Gambia 3Guyana 2Indonesia 47Iran 58

Iraq 3Jordan 34Kazakhstan 34Kuwait 10Kyrgyzstan 4Lebanon 6Malaysia 78Maldives 1Mali 7Morocco 6Mozambique 4Niger 3Nigeria 80Oman 14Pakistan 630Palestine 8

Papua New Guinea 4Qatar 29Saudi Arabia 30Senegal 7Sierra Leone 1Somalia 4Sudan 29Syria 3Tajikistan 3Togo 1Tunisia 2Turkey 29Turkmenistan 3UAE 13Uganda 2Uzbekistan 8Yemen 4

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• Developed under grants from NASA and NLM/NIH•80 million hits a year • Highest Google Ranked Site for Global Health lectures• 170 publications in Science, Nature, PNAS• Top 100 PC magazine site• Leading site Arabic for many Prevention topics•Leading site in many OIC countries•Enormous Sharing between OIC countries, US and world wide

Building the OIC Supercourse• Translation of all lectures into Arabic and French• Creation of Primary centers in the Library of Alexandria and WHO CC Pittsburgh• Increasing collaborators to 5,000 from all OIC countries•Collection of Prevention lectures from OIC faculty•Establishment of Country specific OIC sites•Dissemination of lectures through Web, Mirrored servers, DVDs, Pod casting, etc.

This lecture is available at:www.pitt.edu/super1/

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