Supercourse and Obesity Ronald LaPorte, PhD Faina Linkov, PhD WHO Collaborating Center Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications University of Pittsburgh

Are we going to see decrease in life expectancy with the obesity epidemic?

http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,2000802,00.html

What is the Supercourse?

www.pitt.edu/~super1

SUPERCOURSE-global library of PowerPoint lectures on prevention and public health, shared for free by the best faculty members in the world and the network of 50,000 global health professionals.

Supercourse Model: lecture sharing Teacher in Mexico Teacher in Bolivia Teacher in Kenya Teacher in Pittsburgh Teacher in Havana Teacher in San Francisco

Supercourse lecture format

Global Participation

48,000 Faculty 174 Countries 4711 Prevention lectures >150 lectures on diabetes and metabolism, but only about 10 specific to obesity

Joshua Lederberg (1958) Baruch S. Blumberg (1976) Ferid Murad (1998) Gunter Blobel (1999)

Nobel Prize Laureates in the Supercourse (Medicine)

Eric R. Kandel (2000) Paul Greengard (2000) Leland H Hartwell (2001) Paul C Lauterbur (2003)

Large Multidisciplinary Network

Open Source PowerPoint Lecture Library Continuous Quality Improvement Distribution System to Educators

Empowering Educators world wide with state of the art lecture content

Educators Researchers Clinicians Midwifes Nurses Public Health Educators

Supercourse has lectures on many areas related to obesity including energy balance, physical activity, cancer, inactivity, diabetes, etc. We are looking forward to seeing your lecture in the Supercourse!

Peter Bennett initiated the longitudinal studies of diabetes among the Pima Indians of Arizona and has published extensively on factors that predict the development of diabetes and its complications.

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