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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:26:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ronald E. LaPorte from Pittsburgh" <[log in to unmask]>
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friends,

we are in the process of developing a supercourse in epidemiology, the
internet and global health for medical and nursing students.

It will be developed by a large group of people world wide, and provided
for free to medical schools.  The program prepresents a series of
internet/interactive lectures.  Instructors in medical schools can use one
lecture or 16 lectures.

In addition we have several leaders to provide specific lectures on the
future of the Internet (John Patrick, VP IBM), cariovascular epidemiology
(jaakko tuolimehto, national public health institute in finland), diabetes
epidemiology (peter bennett, NIH), etc.  The course will be translated
into Spanish, Japanese and French.

There is the interest to have this as part of the African distance
education program, and it is being consider to be translated into 4
african languages.

The course will be provided on 3 and 1/2 disc to interface with the
internet where connections are poor, as well as CDs.

THe students from across the world will talk with each other as we will
have discussion groups, as well as global joint projects to bring the
medical students together.

We would like lectures and input from the World Bank and other
institutions interested in Global Health.

It will be used at Jikei university in TOkyo in the spring.

We would very much like people to review the lectures to comment upon
them.  All lectures will be peer reviewed.

We are developing this to stimulate discusion amoung medical students, and
to show them that epidemiology and public health are not boring..

Please let us know if you would like to provide input to this course.

thanks

ron laporte, ph.d
director, disease monitoring and telecommunications
WHO collaborating center
professor of epidemiology
graduate school of public health
university of pittsburgh
pittsburgh, pa  15261
USA