AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Update - August 1999

[Ronald E Laporte <ghnetu+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Update - August 1999
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Friends,

We have had a spawning of interest in the Supercourse. Currently the 
World Association of Pathology lead by Dr. William Zeiler and Dr. Mikio 
Mori and Rehabilitation Sciences lead by Dr. Clifford Brubaker are es-
tablishing supercourses in addition to the excellent work of Hiko Tam-
ishiro at WHO. In addition, Chuck Vukotich has started a drive to es-
tablish a "practical" supercourse for local and state health depart-
ments. These lectures would be training materials for instructors in 
state health departments, which should markedly improve training lo-
cally.

JUST IN TIME GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH 

Finally, Bernie Hibbitts a professor of Law at the University of Pitts-
burgh has established a wonderful web page that we might want to emu-
late:
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/kosovo.htm

This web page began in the very early days of the Kosovo conflict; it 
evolved by bringing together the latest news from all sides. What is of 
interest is he got lawyers from Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, the US 
and elsewhere to directly discuss with one another the conflict. 

Wouldn't it be great if we as a group could do something like this, in 
addition to creating a set of lectures about a health crisis as it 
evolves? If we had say 20 people across the world co-ordinating differ-
ent components of the JUST IN TIME GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH reports, it 
could be easily done, with many eyes coming to us. Moreover, as what 
Bernie did with Lawyers, we also have 1,100 Internet-Public Health folk 
from 101 countries. Sites like this are produced, but none with an ex-
isting public health talent pool like ours worldwide. We could wait un-
til a health crisis occurred in an area where we have representation, 
and these people could be the directors of the action. Once the crisis 
is done, we tear down the web site and move to the next. We would ap-
preciate your thoughts. Please email to <rlaporte@vms.cis.pitt.edu>. It 
could be a powerful model of just in time public health, and CNN type 
supercourse lectures.

Ron, Deb, Akira, Benjamin, Eun Sa, Tom
WHO Collaborating Center 
Dept. of Epidemiology 
Graduate School of Public Health 
University of Pittsburgh 
Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
mailto:ghnetu+@pitt.edu

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