AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Newsletter, October 31

[Ron Laporte <super3+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Newsletter, October 31
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/


Dear Friends,

Happy Halloween, from the ghosts, and goblins in Pittsburgh!!!

This is the Supercourse Newsletter. We would very much appreciate if 
you would distribute this to your students and faculty. If they want 
to join, please come to our web site and register.

Congratulations our good friends. We did it!!! We got 508 lectures 5 
days before Halloween. It is wonderful, we did not think it was to 
happen. Actually, Akira, Tom and Ron were ready to write some new 
lectures, but our friends from around the world saved the day. 

508 lectures, remarkable. It does not seem like much, but it is huge. 
508 lectures represent about 15,000 slides, most certainly the larg-
est collection of slides on public health ever assembled. In term of 
book-equivalents, each lecture is similar to a chapter. If there are 
10 chapters for each book then we would have created over 50 books on 
public health. You all did a fantastic job. We would very much like 
to receive more lectures related to bioterrorism and terrorism, not 
the political aspects, but the biological, and scientific aspects. 

On Oct 27 of last year our poet laureate Arin Basu sent a wonderful 
note of Diwali. Diwali is the Indian Festival of lights and philoso-
phy of dispelling darkness. At that time we had 241 lectures. His 
wonderful message preceded the gain of 267 lectures in only one year; 
a lecture every 1.5 days. With the wisdom of 508 lectures, the light 
of prevention can improve the health of the world. With Arin, and us, 
we wish you a wonderful Diwali. (also a Happy Halloween as well!!).

We have a prize for the 500th lecture. The lecture that was number 
500 is a beautiful lecture on screening by Dr. Sherine Shawky. 
Sherine has just recently joined the Supercourse. She was trained in 
Medicine in Egypt at the outstanding Ain Shams University in Cairo. 
She received her MPH from the Catholic University in Louvain Belgium, 
and then an MS in Statistics, epidemiologic and operational methods 
from the Free University of Brussels, and a DrPH. She has worked pri-
marily in the area of maternal and child health. 

She sees that world as we do: "I believe that Epidemiology is manda-
tory in medical education and practice on all levels as it is the 
foundation of the medical research which constitute the powerful root 
that supports continuous advancement in medical practice".

We will send her a small gift from our Supercourse team.

You will soon see her beautiful work.

With all of your help, you have given us a wonderful "treat" for Hal-
loween. We want to thank you very much and in the next few weeks we 
will be sending to you a "treat" not a "trick" for this accomplish-
ment, as we have all done it together.

The Celebration present will be sent to you via e-mail. We think you 
will enjoy it.

It is a wonderful day, thanks again so very much. 

Ron, Akira, Eun Ryoung, Faina, Mita, Fan, Eugene, Beatriz, Grace, 
Tom, Abed, Deb, Benjamin

It snowed last week for the first time.

Ronald E. LaPorte, PH.D.
Director, Disease Montoring and Telecommunications
WHO Collaborating Center
Professor of Epidemiology
3512 Fifth Ave. Rm 310
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Tel:   +1-412-383-2746
Fax:   +1-412-383-1026
Mobile +1-412-400-3751
mailto:super3+@pitt.edu

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