[afro-nets] Supercourse Newsletter, December 22, 2005

["Ronald E. LaPorte" <super1+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Newsletter, December 22, 2005
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1
22 December 2005
 
Dear Friends,
 
It has been a wonderful year working with all of you. We have 
people from China, Peru, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Austra-
lia, Israel, and over 100 other countries working together irre-
spective of our religion, our color, our gender, our age, and 
our favorite football teams. Pretty cool stuff.
 
I have asked some of you to send to us quotes about friendship 
and health. We were sent beautiful thoughts. It is a small gift 
from some of us to all of you, in the spirit of love and friend-
ship.
 
Russian:
?Good brotherhood is the best wealth?
?Don't have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends?
 
Indian:
"Unity is strength"
 
French:
"Prevention is better than cure"
 
Arabic:
?He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has every-
thing?
 
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born 
until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new 
world is born." Nin
 
"Life without a friend is death without a witness." Benge
 
A true friendship is like sound health, the value of it is sel-
dom known until lost.
Chinese Proverb
 
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind 
me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." -- Camus
 
"The road to a friend's house is never long" --Danish proverb
 
?Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks" Greek
 
Hebrew:
?To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose 
under the heaven?
?Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that ob-
taineth understanding?
 
Medicine is a science from which one learns the states of the 
human body with respect to what is healthy and what is not, in 
order to preserve good health when it exists and restore it when 
it is lacking 
Ibn Sina, the opening to the Qanun fi al-tibb
 
 
Iraq
 
Dear Ron,
 
With my finger coloured by the voting ink and from a faithful 
heart with a good will i am writing to you wishing for you and 
for all friends on the globe Merry Christmas and a Happy New 
Year.
Mohammad AL-Shammary
 
Supercourse:
2,405 Lectures, 31,207 Friends from 151 countries: The Power of 
a Friendship Network
 
Friendship and the sharing of knowledge are the best presents. 
We all have the unique privilege where we can help change the 
world by working together. Cool stuff. We want 2006 to be the 
best year we have ever been. Please send to me any comments to 
make 2006 boom forward (mailto:ronaldlaporte@gmail.com)
 
Onward to Schools of Global Health!!!
 
Nostalgia: We owe so much to so many people. When the Super-
course started in 1997 no idea if scholars would share their 
lectures with us; it had never been done. We owe much to Tom 
Jefferson from the UK, Varlava Smitkova from the Czech republic, 
Michline Beaudry from Canada, Ralph Cordell from CDC and Hum-
berto Guerra from Peru. These were the first 5 people who sent a 
lecture. The lectures were diverse, ranging from virtual librar-
ies to Malaria, the senders were all over the map, the lectures 
were pearls of wisdom. When we received these we knew it would 
work. We in Pittsburgh owe them so much as they took a chance 
with the Supercourse, and were the first. Since then 2,000 other 
lectures have come in. I still remember to this day Tom Jeffer-
son from the UK sending the first lecture. It was an honor to be 
in-trusted with these outstanding lectures which showed us that 
we in global health could share our knowledge world wide. 
 
Thanks, Tom, Varlava, Michline, Ralph, Humberto and 1000 other 
faculty.
 
Ron, Faina, Eugene, Mita, Soni, Francois, Arlene, Ali, Julia, 
Saida, Mohammed, Shai, Rania, Santa, Big Bad Buck, Tom, Varlava, 
Michline, Ralph, Yang, and Humberto