Distribution and the

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Distribution and the Digital Divide
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Mirrored Server
Lahore, Pakistan
Pittsburgh
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Supercourse Mirror Sites
42 Mirrored Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Russia
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Husseini and LaPorte Islam with the internet
could do much to prevent disease,
BMJ, 2001, 323, 694
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Future Directions
Server
Development of new information distribution
systems involving the use of cell
phones Server to Cell phone/PDA to School TV
Cell phone
School TV
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Nobel Prize Laureates in the Supercourse
(Medicine)
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Global Leaders giving lectures
Jeff Koplan, M.D. Former Director, Centers for
Disease Control
all CDC Lectures
Vint Cerf (father of the Internet)
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Cost Effectiveness
20,000 students x 5 yrs. 100,000 students
trained 1000/100,000
0.01/Student
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1000 Lectures Sent to 10,000 prevention experts
in 139 Countries
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• 75 million hits/year
• 125 publications
• (including BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med)

magazine
Top 100
PC Magazine
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Future

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Pakistan
Public Health/ Teleprevention
620 Members Pakistani Supercourse
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Just-in-Time Lectures
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Risk Communication Failure

• Misleading Statistics
• Talking Head
• Framing as the next epidemic

FEAR
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FEAR
1.5 Billion Dollars
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Just-in-Time Lectures
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Eric Noji, M.D. CDC
Bam Earthquake in Iran
Ali Aldadan, M.D. Tehran, Iran
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SupercourseDevelopers
Ron LaPorte, USA Akira Sekikawa
Japan EunRyoung Sa Korea Mita Lovalekar
India Benjamin Acosta Mexico Eugene Shubnikov
Russia Rania Saad Egypt Beatriz Rodriquiz
Mexico Faina Linkov USA/Ukraine Soni Dodoni
Pakistan Seok-Won Park
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Who will bring about the telepreventive medicine
changes?
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Telepreventive Medicine