AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Newsletter, March 23, 2003

[Ron LaPorte <super1+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Newsletter, March 23, 2003
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1

March 15, 2002 - 4932 faculty, 130 countries,  640 lectures. 
March 22, 2003 - 9250 faculty, 151 countries, 1250 lectures. 

The future:

Global Prevention day: 

The world cannot seem to work together, we in prevention can

Hippocrates: Life is so short, the craft is so long to learn 

Hippocrates was discussing about medicine, but exactly the same thing 
can be said about Prevention. Our Supercourse helps to learn our 
craft by sharing our lectures among the teachers of the world. This 
benefits all of us.

We received excellent ideas and interest for the development of a 
global prevention day. We wanted to start the second round of discus-
sions for your input.

It is clear that we were trying to do way too much. We need to sim-
plify GPD for it to be successful. Based upon all the input we are 
considering developing a global prevention day as follows:

Shortly after Hippocrates birthday (Sept. 9), we will identify a 
week, for a global prevention celebration.

Hippocrates: Walking is man's best medicine 

Participation is simple: We will create a state of the art PowerPoint 
global prevention lecture which will be distributed to our faculty of 
9250. The first level of participation would be to distribute this 
file to faculty and students in one's university or country. We thus 
snowball the lecture around our countries.

A second level of participation would be for our Supercourse Faculty 
to give a seminar on prevention during prevention week at their uni-
versities/centers.

The third level would be for the Supercourse Faculty to distribute 
CDs to students and faculty at their universities/centers. 

One of the strengths of the Supercourse is the distribution of lec-
tures. If we can get one outstanding lecture on global prevention 
distributed world wide with a concerted effort, we have achieved a 
major purpose, making prevention accessible to the world. We also 
have created a wonderful new model of prevention.

Hippocrates: You will find as a general rule that constitutions and 
habits of people follow the nature of the land they live 

We would love to hear your opinion about this. Also, we need to de-
termine how much interest there is. We think if we can get a center 
in 20 countries it probably is worth putting the time in to establish 
this. Please send comments to <ronlaporte@aol.com>

It is time the world comes together over prevention.

Hippocrates: There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the 
former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Ron, Faina, Mita, Eugene, Akira, Soni, Abed, Julia, Rania, Beatriz, 
Tom, Deb, Wendy
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu

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