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Global Health SUPERCOURSE

Supercourse selection of lectures which can be used as part of your Global Health course/curricula

Teaching Sites:

Basic Epidemiology

Non-communicable Diseases

Infectious Diseases

Global Health Certificate School Project, University of Pittsburgh

Non-communicable Diseases:

Global Health

Epidemiologic Transition

CVD Epidemiology

Cancer

Diabetes

Injuries

Risk Factors

 

Chronic Disease Supercourse Lectures

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Non-communicable Diseases:

Global Health

Name of the lecture Lecturer Institution
GLOBAL STRATEGIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF DIABETES AND OTHER NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES  in Arabic Ala Alwan WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
Strategic Approaches in Combating Diabetes Mellitus among GCC Countries. Part I    Part II  (Part I) (in Arabic) (Part II) (in Arabic) Tawfik A. M. Khoja Director General - GCC
The Future of Global Health   in Arabic Jim Yong Kim Harvard School of Public Health
What can WHO do to control the epidemic of diabetes? Part I     Part II Gojka Roglic WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
Diabetes as a Global Health Problem - The IDF meets the Challenge. Part I     Part II Morsi Arab University of Alexandria, Egypt
The Importance of Prioritizing Cancer Prevention at Major Academic Cancer Centers  in Spanish  in Russian  in Arabic Ronald B. Herberman University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
The Global Health Crisis Part I   Part II     Part I  Part II in Chinese     Part I  Part II in Spanish W. Tom London Fox Chase, Cancer Center
Smoking and Health Sir Richard Doll (1912-2005) Humanitarian, Legend, Activist...
Agendas and Architecture in Global Health. Part I  Part II   Part I  Part II  in Arabic Barry R. Bloom Harvard School of Public Health
Research and Training Opportunities in Global Health Joel G. Breman Fogarty International Center,NIH
Global Health   in Spanish Tom D. Y. Chin University of Kansas
Golden Lecture of Prevention (in English)  (in Russian)   (in Italian)   (in Chinese)  (in Arabic)   (in Japanese)   (in Spanish) (in Korean)  (in Portuguese)  (in Romanian)   (in Croatian)   (in Macedonian)    (in Indonesian)   (In Marathi)  (In Georgian)  (In Serbian)  (in Uzbec)  (in Albanian)
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Global Health in Spanish in Russian  Global Health (short version)  in Spanish  in Russian  in Arabic  in Chinese
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INTERNATIONAL HEALTH: NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES AS GLOBAL HEALTH PROBLEM Part I Part II  Part I (In Russian)   Part II (In Russian)   Vilius Grabauskas Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania

Epidemiologic Transition

Name of the lecture Lecturer Institution
Health Transition And Emerging Cardiovascular Diseases In Developing Countries Sunita Dodani

Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA

Health transition and emerging cardiovascular disease in developing countries: situation and strategies for prevention. Part I    Part II     Part III    Part I in Arabic  Part III in Arabic Pascal Bovet Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Switzerland
Epidemiologic Transition Ronald E. LaPorte University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Epidemiologic Transition: Changes of fertility and mortality with modernization. Part I      Part II Ronald E. LaPorte University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Epidemiologic Transition: Russian examples Faina Linkov University of Pittsburgh Cancr Institute
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITION   (in Spanish) Shiv Chandra Mathur State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Rajasthan, Jaipur, India

CVD Epidemiology

Name of the lecture Lecturer Institution
Global burden of Cardiovascular Diseases  in Spanish Andrew Tonkin National Heart Foundation of Australia
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CVD)    (In Hungarian) Bettina PIKO Hungary
CVD Control Programs: Preventive Strategies Sunita Dodani Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
CVD Epidemiology Case Studies   in Chinese  in Arabic Nathan Wong University of California, Irvine
Design and conduct of evaluations of CVD control programs Part I    Part II Jennifer O'Loughlin McGill University
Stroke Epidemiology-2001  in Chinese Aurora K. Pajeau  
CVD Epidemiology-Definitions Risk Assessment Incidence and Trends Part I in Chinese  Part II   Part III   revised Nathan Wong University of California, Irvine

Cancer

 

Name of the lecture Lecturer Institution
The National and Global Cancer Burden (Part I)    (Part II)  (Part I) (in Arabic) (Part II) (in Arabic)  (English-Arabic version)  (Part I) in Chinese   (Part II) in Chinese John R. Seffrin American Cancer Society
Introduction to Cancer Epidemiology. Part I   Part II   Part III   Part I (In Spanish)   Part II (In Spanish)   Part III (In Spanish)  Part I in Chinese  Part II in Chinese  Part III in Chinese Dona Schneider School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Obesity, Energy Balance and Cancer Prevention Stephen D. Hursting National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA
Cancer Survivorship Research: Challenge and Opportunity. Part I  Part I in Chinese   Part II   Part I  Part II in Spanish Noreen M. Aziz National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA

Additional lectures that can be useful for your cancer courses include:

Genes and the Environment in Cancer Causation In Spanish    In Russian

Epidemiologic reasoning using cancer statistics Part I     Part II    (In Russian)   Part I      Part II

Gastric Cancer Prevention  (in Spanish)

Cancer Prevention Clinical Trials in America

Genetic screening for sporadic cancers and other diseases of complex etiology

Occupational Cancer Part I  Part I in Chinese   Part II 

Radiation epidemiology and leukemia Part I.  Part I in Chinese    Part II.

Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer

Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer

Cell phones and brain cancer: Unlocking the controversy?

Introduction to Cancer Epidemiology

Cancer disparities

Endometrial Cancer

Epidemiology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Liver Cancer)

Head and neck cancer

Epidemiology of Lung Cancer

Diabetes

Name of the lecture Lecturer Institution
Etiology and Determinants of Type 2 Diabetes   in Chinese Peter H. Bennett NIDDK, USA
Epidemiology of Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Ronald E. LaPorte University of Pittsburgh, USA
Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications - Part   Part II Trevor J. Orchard University of Pittsburgh, USA
Epidemiology in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Nam-Ham Cho Ajou University
Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension as Major Risk Factors for the Development of Cardiac and Renal Disease. Part I.   Part II. John S. Yudkin University Collegue London
Prediction of Type 1 Diabetes and related Autoimmune Diseases Marco Songini S. Michele Hospital in Cagliari
Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Paul R. Earl Biológicas Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Nl, Mexico
Reducing CVD Risk in Diabetes: Part I   Part II Trevor J. Orchard University of Pittsburgh, USA
UPDATE ON CHILDHOOD DIABETES MELLITUS Abdelaziz Elamin Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
The Metabolic Syndrome: International Diabetes Federation (IDF) consensus definition    (Version in Russian) Paul Zimmet International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DIABETES – ITS HISTORY IN THE LAST 50 YEARS  in Chinese Paul Zimmet International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Types of Studies in Diabetes Epidemiology  in Chinese  in Arabic Nam-Ham Cho Ajou University

Injuries

 

Name of the lecture Lecturer Institution
Public Health Disaster Consequences of Disasters (in Spanish) (in Russian) (in Arabic) (in Portuguese) (in Japan) Eric K. Noji Office of the US Surgeon General
TSUNAMI  (In Arabic)   (In Telugu)   (in Spanish)  Ali Ardalan Institute of Public Health Research Tehran , Iran
Injury Epidemiology - Introduction Thomas J. Songer University of Pittsburgh
Injury Epidemiology - Analytic Approaches Thomas J. Songer University of Pittsburgh
Environmental Approaches to Injury Prevention Susan P. Baker Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy
Injury Prevention and Control  (In Spanish)   Peter L. Lane  
Program: Safe School Injury Prevention Program, Health Ministry Mendoza, Argentina Gladys Fernandez de Magistocchi Injury Prevention Program, Health Ministry Mendoza, Argentina
Epidemiology of Disasters -part I-  -part II- Thomas J. Songer University of Pittsburgh

Risk Factors

 
Name of the lecture Lecturer Institution
Dietary Intervention and Recommendations in the Prevention of Obesity and Heart Disease  in Arabic Nathan Wong University of California, Irvine
Cardiovascular Risk Factor Overview and Management. Part I   Part II  Part I in Chinese  Part II in Chinese Nathan Wong University of California, Irvine
CVD Epidemiology-Definitions Risk Assessment Incidence and Trends Part I in Chinese  in Spanish  Part II   Part III   revised Nathan Wong University of California, Irvine
Modifiable Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes   in Arabic Edward Gregg Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta
Health Information Technology and Telecommunication Support in the Eastern Mediterranean Region Najeeb Al-Shorbaji WHO
Golden Lecture of Prevention (in English)  (in Russian)   (in Italian)   (in Chinese)  (in Arabic)   (in Japanese)   (in Spanish) (in Korean)  (in Portuguese)  (in Romanian)   (in Croatian)   (in Macedonian)    (in Indonesian)   (In Marathi)  (In Georgian)  (In Serbian)  (in Uzbec)  (in Albanian) Supercourse Team  
Risk Factors for Smoking in the EMR Region  in Arabic Kawkab Shishani Hashemite University, Jordan

 

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1. A Free Open-Source Model for information sharing through a PowerPointLecture Library.

2. Our Global faculty of over 64,000 shares their best, slides/lectures on Prevention in the Internet. Experienced faculty can enhance their lectures._New instructors reduce preparation time with better lectures. Faculty in developing countries have up to date slides to use.

3. Educate and “Empower” Educators: World-wide teachers create their own lectures using Supercourse top-quality slides and lectures.

4. Faculty: Twenty Nobel Prize winners have contributed lectures along with 31 IOM members; Gil Omenn, AAAS Former President; Vint Cerf, the Father of the Internet; Elias Zerhouni, Former Head of NIH; Ala Alwan, Assistant Director General of NCD, at WHO; and many others.

5. Mirrored Servers: We have 45 mirrored servers in Egypt, Nepal Sudan, China, Mongolia and so forth.

6. Lectures Teaching a Million: In 12 months, over 1,000,000 students were taught through the Supercourse lectures.

7. Just-in-Time Lectures: Scholarly disaster-lectures were created within days after the Bam Earthquake, Rita Hurricane, Pakistan Earthquake and Avian Flu; and reached more than 200,000 people.

8. Library of Alexandria Supercourse of Science: A collection of the most distinguished lectures from all science.

9. Medical and Public Health students: We are providing a DVD to all medical and public health students in 1700 medical and public health schools. We are sharing our lectures with all medical libraries in the world

10. Productivity: Over 170 papers in Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, etc. we were identified as one of the top 10 Web sites by PC Magazine and the best of the web by science.

11-Ten day Supercourse short courses for Non-Communicable diseases.

 

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Towards the Communication on the 'EU' role in Global Health'  (lecture by Juan Garay at the EC in Brussels)