NIH Supercourse ??

Supercourse Teamwww.pitt.edu/~super1/

Developed by the Global Health Network Supercourse team in Pittsburgh

NIH Health Reform Act, 2006

Sept. 26

The bill would also require the Director of the NIH to:

…Establish an electronic data base to track research activity…

NIH Mission Statement

…directs programs for the collection, dissemination, and

exchange of information.

NIH Supercourse Goals

Bridge Between research and classroom

Improve NIH’s National and Global Transparency

e-Recruiting of students into Science and the NIH

Taxpayer Accountability

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

Nelson Mandela

Research Education

Symbiotic Relationship of Research and Education

Circle of Science

How can we improve science and education worldwide?

Question:

Answer:

Get better lectures

Why don’t scientists share our most exciting

PowerPoint lectures for free?

Helping Teachers

Empowering, not Replacing the teacher

38,000 Faculty4000 from Developing Countries

7000 Universities 152 Countries

Lectures

Authors of Lectures

20 Nobel Prize Winners 300 National Academy of Science NIH Director US Surgeon General Ministers of Health Former CDC Director Head of AAAS

120 countries400,000 students

Just in Time Lectures

                                                          

University of Khartoum, Sudan

Cuttington University, Liberia

Last Biomedical Journal1990

Supercourse Mirror Sites

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

Beginnings of NIH Supercourse13 Institutes, 65 lectures

http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/NIH/nih-legacy.htm

NIH Supercourse Goals

Bridge Between research and classroom

Improve NIH’s National and Global Transparency

e-Recruiting of students into Science and the NIH

Taxpayer Accountability

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret

Fuller

For more information, please contact Supercourse developers:

• Ronald LaPorte, PhD ronlaporte@aol.com

• Faina Linkov, PhD fyL1@pitt.edu

• Eugene Shubnikov, MD eshubn@gmail.com

• Mita Lovalekar, MD mital@pitt.edu