NIH Supercourse ?? Developed by the Global Health Network Supercourse team in Pittsburgh Supercourse Team www.pitt.edu/~super1/
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NIH Supercourse ?? Developed by the Global Health Network Supercourse team in Pittsburgh Supercourse Team www.pitt.edu/~super1/ NIH Health Reform Act, 2006 Sept. 26 The bill would also require the Director of the NIH to: …Establish an electronic data base to track research activity… NIH Mission Statement …directs programs for the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information. NIH Supercourse Goals Bridge Between research and classroom Improve NIH’s National and Global Transparency e-Recruiting of students into Science and the NIH Taxpayer Accountability Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela Circle of Science Research Education Symbiotic Relationship of Research and Education Question: How can we improve science and education worldwide? Answer: Get better lectures Why don’t scientists share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free? Helping not Empowering, Replacing Teachers the teacher 38,000 Faculty 4000 from Developing Countries 7000 Universities 152 Countries Lectures Authors of Lectures 20 Nobel Prize Winners 300 National Academy of Science NIH Director US Surgeon General Ministers of Health Former CDC Director Head of AAAS Just in Time Lectures 120 countries 400,000 students University of Khartoum, Sudan Last Biomedical Journal 1990 Cuttington University, Liberia Supercourse Mirror Sites 42 Mirrored Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia, Russia Beginnings of NIH Supercourse 13 Institutes, 65 lectures http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/NIH/nih-legacy.htm NIH Supercourse Goals Bridge Between research and classroom Improve NIH’s National and Global Transparency e-Recruiting of students into Science and the NIH Taxpayer Accountability If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller For more information, please contact Supercourse developers: • • • • Ronald LaPorte, PhD [email protected] Faina Linkov, PhD [email protected] Eugene Shubnikov, MD [email protected] Mita Lovalekar, MD [email protected]