A Global Repository for Epidemiology, the Internet & Global Health
Supercourse is a global repository (online library) of lectures on public health and prevention.
The Supercourse is readily available as a resource for educators around the world to download and use lectures when needed. It is also a place that educators can contributing their own lectures.
Supercourse has a network of over 43435 scientists in 175 countries who are sharing for free a library of 3385 lectures in 26 languages.
In addition there are over 2300 lectures on global health from 650 teachers in 93 countries.
I contributed one of the Internet lectures now available on the Supercourse entitled "Ethical Challenges of the Medical and Healthcare Internet."
The Supercourse is readily available as a resource for educators around the world to download and use lectures when needed. It is also a place that educators can contributing their own lectures.
Supercourse has a network of over 43435 scientists in 175 countries who are sharing for free a library of 3385 lectures in 26 languages.
In addition there are over 2300 lectures on global health from 650 teachers in 93 countries.
I contributed one of the Internet lectures now available on the Supercourse entitled "Ethical Challenges of the Medical and Healthcare Internet."
Table of Contents for this Lens
- Imagine all the teachers, sharing all their resources.
- Information About the Supercourse on YouTube
- The Supercourse is a Global Course
- Quick Facts on the Supercourse
- Links for the Supercourse
- More about the SuperCourse
- JIT (Just in Time) Lectures - Responding to Emergent Situations
- More about Just in Time and Disaster Lectures
- Scientific Networking And the Global Health Network Supercourse: Information And Communication Security
- Articles and Research about the Supercourse
- Your Invitation to Join the Supercourse on YouTube
- Getting Involved with the Supercourse
- My Supercourse Lecture on the Medical Internet
- Join the Supercourse on YouTube
- Ready to Get Involved with the Supercourse?
- A Global Health Network of Faculty Members
- Supercourse Mirror and Foreign Language Sites
- Books on Health and the Internet Available on Amazon
- Reader Feedback on the Supercourse
Imagine all the teachers, sharing all their resources.
Information About the Supercourse on YouTube
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Supercourse is a global repository of lectures on public health and revention targeting educators across the world. Supercourse has a network of over 43435 scientists in 175 countries who are sharing for free a library of 3385 lectures in 26 languages. The concept of the Supercourse and its lecture style has been described as the Global Health Network University and the Hypertext Comic Books.
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The Supercourse is a Global Course
43,435 scientists
175 countries
3385 free lectures
26 languages
Quick Facts on the Supercourse
- Open Source:
Our Global faculty shares their best, 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 - "Empower" Educators:
The Library of Lectures consists of exciting scientific lectures by scholars in prevention. The classroom teacher "takes" them out for free. - Faculty:
* Thirty Nobel Prize winners
* 60 IOM members and other top people contributed lectures
* Gil Omenn, AAAS, Vint Cerf, the father of the Internet, Elias Zerhouni, head of NIH, have contributed lectures. - Mirrored Servers and CDs:
They have 45 mirrored servers in Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia and others.
They have distributed 20,000 Supercourse CDs to date. - Lectures Teaching a Million:
In 12 months we taught over 1 million students last year. - JIT (Just in Time) Lectures:
We created scholarly lectures within days after the Bam Earthquake, Kristina and Rita, Pakistan Earthquake and Avian Flu. - Schools of Global Health:
We Plan to build Schools of Global Health world wide. Scientists from 26 nations are working to establish small, mini certificate granting courses. The need is there as there are 737 Medical schools and only 71 SPH - Quality Control:
There are 8 million PowerPoint lectures on the web, the only lectures and publications involving QC are ours. We are taking a multilayered QC system including peer review, Deming based Statistical Quality control, and Amazon approaches - Global Health Network:
The most important aspect of the Supercourse is our 45,000 member expert network where those in say Cairo can help those in Philidelphia to control West Nile fever. - Productivity:
They have published over 170 papers in leading medical journals including Science, Nature, Lancet, BMJ, Nature Medicine, PNAS among others.
Their web pages have been identified as in the top 100 by PC Magazine. We receive 75-100 million hits a year.
Links for the Supercourse
- Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
- Supercourse is a global repository of lectures on public health and prevention targeting educators across the world.
More about the SuperCourse
The concept of the Supercourse is building a "metaschool" of a variety of themes that could train students through the Internet.
Lectures are selected and made available on the Internet for the personal use of individual scientists and shared without restrictions among scientists and teachers, but cannot be sold.
If one uses a Supercourse lecture, the author of the lecture and the Supercourse itself should be acknowledged. The content and its accuracy are solely determined by the authors of the lectures.
A pilot project has been initiated taking the public health as a theme and 1500 electronic lectures that represent the "best lectures" in epidemiology have been selected and made available on CD as well as on the web.
Lectures are selected and made available on the Internet for the personal use of individual scientists and shared without restrictions among scientists and teachers, but cannot be sold.
If one uses a Supercourse lecture, the author of the lecture and the Supercourse itself should be acknowledged. The content and its accuracy are solely determined by the authors of the lectures.
A pilot project has been initiated taking the public health as a theme and 1500 electronic lectures that represent the "best lectures" in epidemiology have been selected and made available on CD as well as on the web.
JIT (Just in Time) Lectures - Responding to Emergent Situations
Scholarly real-time lectures were created through collaborative efforts and available within days after the Bam Earthquake, the Tsunami, Hurricanes Kristina and Rita, the Pakistan Earthquake and in response to the Avian Flu and SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
These Just in Time lectures were made available to the classrooms of the world, reaching 120 countries.
Should a disaster strike, through the Supercourse, Contributors can create Just in Time lectures to get the best possible prevention and mitigation knowledge to the people who are interested.
The Supercourse also maintains a list of Disaster lectures for both Natural and Man Made disasters that include topics on Surveillance, Prevention and Disaster Mitigation, Terrorism, Bioterrorism, Disasters and injuries.
These Just in Time lectures were made available to the classrooms of the world, reaching 120 countries.
Should a disaster strike, through the Supercourse, Contributors can create Just in Time lectures to get the best possible prevention and mitigation knowledge to the people who are interested.
The Supercourse also maintains a list of Disaster lectures for both Natural and Man Made disasters that include topics on Surveillance, Prevention and Disaster Mitigation, Terrorism, Bioterrorism, Disasters and injuries.
More about Just in Time and Disaster Lectures
- Just In Time Supercourse
- The list of Just In Time Lectures available at the Supercourse.
- Disasters Supercourse (Natural and Man Made)
- A listing of available Supercourse Lectures Related to Surveillance, Prevention and Disaster Mitigation, Terrorism, Bioterrorism, Disasters and injuries.
- Just-in-time lectures: SARS
- Just-in-time lectures on SARS an article from 2003 published in the Lancet.
- Super Course - Just in Time - lectures
- Information on the Just in Time lectures from the APACPH Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health.
Scientific Networking And the Global Health Network Supercourse: Information And Communication Security
Modern technologies are giving us an unprecedented opportunity to share disaster preparedness and mitigation information very rapidly and effectively.
Technologies such as the Internet, telecommunications, etc., have a great potential to help us prepare for disasters, however, oftentimes scientists are not taking advantage of them.
Technologies such as the Internet, telecommunications, etc., have a great potential to help us prepare for disasters, however, oftentimes scientists are not taking advantage of them.
Scientific Networking And the Global Health Network Supercourse: Information And Communication Security (NATO Security Through Science Series)
Amazon Price: $183.00 (as of 11/25/2009)
This special publication prepared for the NATO Security Through Science Series focuses on the importance of the networking of scientists researching the area of natural and man-made disasters, to try to prepare the world better for them in the future.
Articles and Research about the Supercourse
- Global public health and the information superhighway Epidemiologists are using the internet
- A description of the Global Health Network University describing the Supercourse from the British Medical Journal in 1994.
- The Reincarnation of Biomedical Journals as Hypertext Comic Books
- An article on the Supercourse published in Nature Medicine in 1998.
- The Global Health Network Supercourse: epidemiology, the internet, and global health.
- A link to the abstract of an article published in Telemedicine Journal in 1999 about the Supercourse.
- Translation, Dissemination and Education: An Environmental Public Health Tracking Network Supercourse
- A pdf file of a report Translation, Dissemination and Education: An Environmental Public Health Tracking Network Supercourse about building a EPHTN (Environmental and Public Health Tracking Newtork) Supercourse.
- Organizing the Present, Looking to the Future: An Online Knowledge Repository to Facilitate Collaboration
- This article from the Journal of Medical Internet Research looks at An Online Knowledge Repository to Facilitate Collaboration that includes a lecture in the Epidemiology Supercourse.
- Quality Control of Epidemiological Lectures Online: Scientific Evaluation of Peer Review
- A look at an article on the Quality Control of Epidemiological Lectures Online: Scientific Evaluation of Peer Review published in the Croatian Medical Journal.
- Web Quality Control for Lectures: Supercourse and
- Another article from the Croatian Medical Journal comparing Web Quality Control for Lectures between the Supercourse and Amazon.com.
- Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
- An article on the Globalization of Science Education: A Scientific Supercourse from the NDT-Educational for Kidney & Blood Pressure Disorders.
Your Invitation to Join the Supercourse on YouTube
Getting Involved with the Supercourse
- How to Join the Supercourse Faculty
- Information for faculty members interested in joining the Supercourse Faculty.
- Instruction for Authors
- Instructions for Supercourse Authors on how to submit Supercourse lectures.
My Supercourse Lecture on the Medical Internet
- Ethical Challenges of the Medical and Healthcare Internet | Supercourse
- My lecture on Ethical Challenges of the Medical and Healthcare Internet that is available as part of the Supercourse.
- "Medical Internet Ethics: A Field in Evolution",
- Downloadable PowerPoint slides of the presentation "Medical Internet Ethics: A Field in Evolution", presented at Medinfo'01, Sept 2001 available as a Multimedia Appendix to this article.
Join the Supercourse on YouTube
Ready to Get Involved with the Supercourse?
Click on the image to sign up with the Supercourse.
A Global Health Network of Faculty Members
Supercourse Mirror and Foreign Language Sites
- Supercourse Mirror Sites
- Supercourse Mirror List for 2008. There are 45 Mirrors that have been set up around the world!
- Russian Supercourse in Russian
- Russian Supercourse site in Russian.
- Super Curso Latinoamericano
- Latin American Supercourse in Spanish.
Books on Health and the Internet Available on Amazon
2007 Global Conference: The Internet and Your Health
Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 11/25/2009)
eHealth Solutions for Healthcare Disparities
Amazon Price: $69.95 (as of 11/25/2009)
Reader Feedback on the Supercourse
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- monarch13 monarch13 Nov 12, 2008 @ 5:53 am
- I am getting my Masters in Health Promotion and this is a great resource!
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