Internet Education for Disaster Mitigation Supercourse WHO Collaborating
Internet Education for Disaster: Mitigation: Supercourse
WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA Janice Dorman, Ph. D. Director Molecular Epidemiology Ronald La. Porte, Ph. D. Director Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications
BMJ 1995; 310: 1412 (27 May) A global health disaster network is needed EDITOR, --Kobe, Chechnya, Bosnia, Rwanda. . . all these disasters have been characterised by difficulties in communication. How many people are injured? Homeless? Buried? Need food? Most of these pressing questions are answered by word of mouth. The lack of accurate and timely information is compounded by our inability to establish immediate, real time communications among international health agencies, non-government disaster and relief organisations, affected governments and localauthorities, and the people themselves, which leads to needless morbidity, mortality, and waste in both manmade and natural disasters. It is only now that we are beginning to apply new technologies to improve communication during disasters. We are in the middle of a telecommunications revolution.
Major General Randolph Military Supercourse Advanced classroom learning through civilian-military shareware Military Medicine, Randolph, La. Porte, Oct 2000
WHO Collaborating Center Janice Dorman, Ph. D. Director Molecular Epidemiology Ronald La. Porte, Ph. D. Director Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications
Large Multidisciplinary Network Open Source Power. Point Lecture Library Continuous Quality Improvement Distribution System to Educators
56, 000 Faculty 9500 Universities 174 Countries
World Health Organization United Nations Ala Alwan Former Assistant Director-General Health Action in Crises Sálvano Briceño Director of the Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR)
Capacity? (Alwan)
Global Health Network
La. Porte Kahn Alwan Pakistan USA Bano Sudan Indonesia Flora WHOy Bangladesh
Disaster Global Disaster Network It is better to have an expert network for Disasters in place before a pandemic rather than try to cobble it together afterwards Villesenor, Director, NASA Scientific Network
www. supercourse. cn 140 Chinese Medical Students
Indian Supercourse Network 6, 735 faculty members More than 200 lectures on topics of interest to teachers of Public Health in India Mita Lovalekar, MBBS, MPH is the coordinator of the Indian Supercourse Network.
58, 000 Faculty 174 Countries
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Comparing Supercourse, WHO and CDC Countries 174 Participants 58, 000 5, 000 disasters 192 3500 43 <500 (8, 500 total)
Building a Global Disaster Network And Global Disaster Supercourse
Disasters as Asymmetric Threats
Asymmetric Threats and the Supercourse 22
Asymmetric Threat Man-made Unpredictable Challenges Disruptive Unexpected Targeting weaknesses Very rare, impossible to conceive before event Threats to Military, Government, Civilians, Information Infrastructure
Asymmetric Threat--Nature
Natural Disasters Unpredictable Challenges Disruptive Unexpected Targeting weaknesses Very rare, impossible to conceive before event Threats to Military, Government, Civilians, Information Infrastructure 25
Tsunami JIT Lecture Network found 40 global experts (meteorology, oceanography, disaster) JIT Lecture generated in 3 days Lecture distributed to 120 countries 200, 000 students learned from the lecture JIT Tsunami Lecture 26
Just-in-Time Lectures for Asymmetric Threats • • • Rapid Contact of Expert Supercourse Network Lecture Created by Experts with Vetting Rapid JIT Development of Customized lectures Rapid Dissemination Continuously updated learning as crisis enfolds Expert Reachback 27
Just-in-Time Lectures
Katrina April 29, 2006
Path of Hurricane Rita Sept. 24 Rita Striking land Sept. 23 Distribute lecture To 42 States Sept 22 Distribute lecture To all K-16, and Epidemiologists Sept. 21 Email 300 Ghnet In Texas
H 1 N 1 lecture • Lecture in 24 hours • Translated in 3 days to 11 languages include Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew • Reached 50 million • Became trusted source • Leading H 1 N 1 lecture on web
Disaster 5000 with specific disaster focus 270 Disaster Lectures from 50 countries 1 Nobel Prize winner 75% full professors 52 countries
620 Members Pakistani Supercourse
One segment which I feel we need to reach out first, are schools all over Pakistan but particularly in cities like Lahore and Islamabad who experienced earthquake but fortunately escaped with out major damage. These young minds are also affected by the stories of hundreds of young students who have lost their lives in other areas. We look forward to your help in this regard. Khawar
Epidemiology of Fear
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. FDR, 1937 Fears are educated into us & can, if we wish, be educated out. — Karl A. Menninger
Epidemiology of Fear Building a Pakistani Earthquake Lecture 620 Members Pakistani Supercourse
Gautam Singh / AP Mumbai
Indian Supercourse in Mumbai, India • 300 faculty members • Approximately 50 public health professionals • Most of the major medical schools are represented • Physicians, public health practitioners
Just-in-Time Training • 2 hours • 2 days • 2 weeks • 2 months
Expert Knowledge Reachback And Networks
Disaster Establishment of a Disaster Network Development of a Disaster Supercourse Establishing a JIT system of training
Global Disaster Health Network and Supercourse
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