[afro-nets] Donate a class for Global Health

[Dieter Neuvians MD <dneuvians@gmx.de>]

Donate a class for Global Health
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From: Ronald E. LaPorte <ronlaporte@aol.com>
 
Dear colleagues,
 
Less than 1% of students are taught about global health, despite 
its the importance. Our Supercourse team (www.pitt.edu/~super1) 
wants to change this. We would like you and other faculty to 
dedicate a class to global health. Each year faculty teach about 
200 lectures. Could you target 1 class (0.5%) for global health? 
 
It is quite simple, we will provide to you all the materials 
with the Eric Noji?s Cutler lecture on Global disasters in 5 
different formats. We ask that you substitute this for one of 
your 200 lectures this year. We will have a live presentation of 
the Cutler lecture on Sept. 29, at 4:00 eastern time at: 
http://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/specialevents/cutler2005/index.html 
and we invite you to join. For the course I am teaching, my stu-
dents will watch his lecture instead of mine.
 
The gain to your students and university is enormous. There is 
no additional work for you in fact less work as there is minimal 
class preparation.
 
Our mission is to provide the lecture on disasters to faculty in 
all disciplines. A global lecture on disasters is needed for di-
verse disciplines such as economics, construction, transporta-
tion, history, or psychology. Disasters/global health touch all 
of us. 
 
We need help to tell other faculty members about the lecture. 
Please distribute this letter to at least 10 of your teaching 
friends in varied disciplines as we need to reach many to im-
prove global health.
 
Please let me know at mailto:epidemiologypgh@aol.com if you 
joining this scholarly effort on global health.
 
Sincerely yours,
 
Ron
 
Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D.
Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications
WHO Collaborating Centre
Department of Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261 USA
mailto:ronlaporte@aol.com