AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Newsletter, June 18, 2003

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

Supercourse Newsletter, June 18, 2003
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1
 
Dear Friends, 
 
The marriage of Hippocrates and Hygeia is quickly approaching and the 
excitement is building up. We still have 3 months to reach the world 
and we cannot waste them. Please come view the golden lecture 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/
 
The lecture has been seen by educators in 61 countries of the world. 
How do we reach the other 140 countries? That is the question. We are 
thinking that instead of reaching 1 million people, we should concen-
trate on reaching every single country of the world. 
 
We have 71 countries with which we especially need help in reaching 
people interested in prevention, as we have no one (or very few) on 
our list from these countries. If you know anyone in these countries, 
we would very much appreciate if you could "read and forward" this 
letter to them as we very much want the golden lecture to teach in 
every country of the world. 
 
The countries that we need help identifying people are:
 
Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, 
Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina 
Faso, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d?Ivoire, Croatia, 
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, 
Gabon, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, 
Iceland, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, 
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, 
Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Samoa, Senegal, 
Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa Syria, Togo, Tonga, 
Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, 
Yugoslavia, Zambia
 
Please, please, please contact people in the countries who are not 
represented in the Supercourse to have them view the golden lecture, 
as well as to join our group.
 
As we presented to you several weeks ago, we recently had a paper 
published in the Lancet demonstrating a Just-In-Time lecture for SARS 
(http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/). The concept of just in time is very 
simple: A JIT lecture is one that is developed by experts such as our 
network which is developed immediately after a potential global 
health event; then it is continuously updated for the classrooms of 
the world. Our good friend Rashid Chotani has subsequently built a 
second JIT lecture on Monkey Pox which is available on the web from 
the main Supercourse website.
 
As of today, the lecture has been translated into 8 languages (Span-
ish, Arabic, Korean, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Portu-
guese) and several other languages will be coming up soon. We would 
like to congratulate all translators for doing such a superb job. 
Please, contact us if you would be interested in translating the lec-
ture into your native language. Translation does not take long, but 
it can have a major impact on prevention teaching in your country. 
 
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the following 
Supercourse members who helped with the golden lecture translation 
and all others who assisted them: Eugene Shubnikov, EunRyoung Sa, 
Beatriz Rico Verdin, Efraim Meneses, Marcio Estrada, Rania Saad, Ma-
nal Koura, Akram Abdalla, Leticia Marín-León, Luis Gerk de Azevedo 
Quadros, Orlando Barrionue, Pierpaolo Mastroiacovo, Daniele Agostini, 
Akira Sekikawa, and Weiting Xie.
 
Congratulations to all of you from 
 
Ron, Faina, Mita, Eugene, Abed, Soni, Beatriz, Marcio, Julia, 
Charles, Akram, Daniele, Tomoko, Wendy, Akira, Chandra, EunRyoung, 
Fred, Manal, Hiko
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu
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