Good to Great Building a Great Global Health

Good to Great Building a Great Global Health Center

The Birth of a new discipline: 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 n Philosophy n History n Current Efforts n 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? n n n Prevent Multiple diseases Apply in many places world wide Proven Effectiveness 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 La. Porte, Ph. D. Director Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications GSPH

Pittsburgh GHNet

On-going Projects n n n 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 Power. Point 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

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 4 1 5 2 1 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 3

19 Existing SPH International Centers Good One disease Uni-disciplinary Small numbers of countries Little R 01 support Not sustainable American Perspective Policy Oriented

Multiple disease research Multidisciplinary Many countries R 01 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/~super 1/ 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 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 R 01 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, R 25, AIDs) CDC US AID Joint Training IREX