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 problems.
The Universal Declaration
of Human Rights
• “Everyone has the right to a standard of
living adequate for the health and well
being of himself and his family, including
food, clothing, housing and medical care.”
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
1948
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
Public health, medicine, and nursing: parts
of the same puzzle
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 in 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
Problem: Information sharing:
Important challenge to global health in the
21st century.
Potential Solution: WWW
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
Education is the most
powerful weapon
which you can use to
change the world.
Nelson Mandela
University of Khartoum, Sudan
Latest Biomedical Journal
1990
Cuttington University, Liberia
One of the Solutions: The
Supercourse
www.pitt.edu/~super1
THE SUPERCOURSE is a
global library of lectures on
prevention and public health,
shared for free by the best
faculty in the world.
Biomedical
Research
Education in Medicine
and Public Health
Global Health Information Sharing:
Supercourse CD/DVD
Distributed to over 10,000 individuals
around the globe
Forming a network
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
Organizations working in the area
of global health
World Health Organization, the Pan
American Health Organization, the
World Bank, UNICEF, UN High
Commissioner for Refugees, the UN
Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, CARE International, the
Global Health Council, and many others
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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