Transcript Global Health Global Health Network Supercourse Project, University of Pittsburgh Building a Global Prevention Network to Share Knowledge and Wisdom.

Global Health
Global Health Network Supercourse
Project, University of Pittsburgh
Building a Global Prevention
Network to Share Knowledge and
Wisdom
Mission of this lecture
1.Teach every medical, public
health and nursing student in
the world about global health
2. Develop a global health
network for students to tackle
local to global health problem.
International Health
International health refers to the
interlocking and interrelated health
status of people throughout the world
and to efforts to improve the health of
all people of every country.
Last, Foege
Global health is an important new term,
and an important new concept. The
Institute of Medicine refers to global
health as "health problems, issues, and
concerns that transcend national
boundaries, may be influenced by
circumstances or experiences in other
countries, and are best addressed by
cooperative actions and solutions."
Why should medical students
learn about global health
• As of today, medical schools have very few
lectures on global health is their curricula
• Health is becoming a global problem, with
chronic diseases being a number one killer
around the globe
• By learning more about global health
research, medical students will be better
equipped to face the challenges of their
unique profession
What should medical students
know about global health
• Know the differences between global and
international health research
• Identify key challenges to global health
• Recognize the importance of information sharing in
the area of global health
• Recognize the importance of preventive activities in
improving global health
• Recognize the need for global networking to
improve global health locally and globally
Local health
Global
health
International
health
Smallpox vaccination: the case of
global health effort in disease
eradication
Most important problems of global
health today
• Communicable, maternal,
perinatal and nutritional
conditions
• Noncommunicable diseases
• Injuries
There are many challenges to global
health with different professionals
emphasizing different diseases.
Interdisciplinary approaches are
needed to ease the burden of both
communicable and noncommunicable diseases
Digital divide: gap between haves and
have nots
One of the biggest global health
challenges is access to information
The importance of
knowledge, learning,
innovation, and IT
“The most fundamental resource in modern
economy is knowledge and, accordingly,
the most important process is learning”
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke (1992) National Systems of Innovation. Towards a Theory
of Innovation and Interactive Learning. Pinter, London and New York, pp. 342
University of Khartoum, Sudan
Last Biomedical Journal
1990
Cuttington University, Liberia
How can you become involved with
Global Health? The Supercourse
SUPERCOURSE-global library of
lectures on prevention and
public health, shared for free by
the best faculty in the world.
www.pitt.edu/~super1
Biomedical
Research
Education in Medicine
and Public Health
Global Health Information Sharing:
Supercourse CD/DVD
Distributed to over 10,000 individuals
around the globe
Conclusion
• Global health is important, as similar conditions
plague people in developed and developing
countries alike
• Life expectancy in the 20th century was
improved due to successes in global health
efforts
• Medical students need to know more about
global health research and form networks to
share important global health knowledge
Additional Readings
Open Source
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec6921/index.htm
Supercourse and Disaster Management Training
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec21601/index.htm
Social Epidemiologic Methods in International Population
Health and Health Services Research
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec17561/index.htm
Principles of Research Synthesis
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec9611/index.htm