grand challenge:

Any Time Any Place Any One

9250 Prevention Faculty from 151 Countries

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1900 1925 1950 1999

DevelopedDeveloping

Life expectancy has risen more in thepast 40 years than in the last 4000 Wolfenson, World Bank

Changing Life Expectancy

The Health Gains are the Result of:

Prevention

Preventionis

InformationSharing

If Cars Developed as Same Pace as IT

100,000 km/hr 250,000 km/liter Cost = $5.00

Inexpensive Low bandwidth systems designed to reach large numbers of healthy people to prevent disease. If institutionalized would be sustainable, and likely lead to improved global health.

Network everyone in Prevention Global Monitoring of disease Build connections across bandwidth, from

Neighborhoods to Internet2Build a corpus of easily usable Prevention

InformationReach the Unreached

MOH China

Uni. Pgh Ghana

BrowneRamachandran

Sudan

Wang

ShubnikovaRussia

LaPorte

India

Network everyone in Prevention Global Monitoring of disease Build connections across bandwidth, from

Neighborhoods to Internet2Build a corpus of easily usable Prevention

InformationReach the Unreached

General Motors sold 2,542,455Automobiles World Wide

99 Billion Sold

NCDs• What is the

incidence of head injuries?

• What is the incidence of CHD?

• What is the incidence of Cancer?

Nobody Knows

Good monitoring does not necessarily ensure the making of right decisions, but it reduces the risk of wrong ones.

Languimer, 1963

We need to monitor health in all areas for all people

Network everyone in Prevention Global Monitoring of disease Build connections across bandwidth, from

Neighborhoods to Internet2Build a corpus of easily usable Prevention

InformationReach the Unreached

Face-to-Face Mail Telephone Internet1 Internet2

Bridging the BandwidthSpectrum with Prevention

Network everyone in Prevention Global Monitoring of disease Build connections across bandwidth, from

Neighborhoods to Internet2Build a corpus of easily usable Prevention

InformationReach the Unreached

Improved Manufacturing and Distribution of Lectures

www.pitt.edu/~super1

Global course 9250 Faculty, from 151 countries

Lectures on Demand 1301 Free PowerPoint lectures

Assist the Teacher Teachers use lectures in their courses

Multilingual Quality Assurance Crossing the Digital/Prevention Divide

Mirrored servers, CD distribution, PowerPoint Comic books, Links to Muslim Cleric Inf. systems

Network everyone in Prevention Global Monitoring of disease Build connections across bandwidth, from

Neighborhoods to Internet2Build a corpus of easily usable Prevention

InformationReach the Unreached

This is the science you would see if you were blind

“The most urgent task before us is to get medical and health knowledge to those most in need of that knowledge.Of the approximately 50 million people who were dying each year in the late 1980’s, fully two thirds could have been saved through application of that knowledge.”Grant J. Med Educ 994;28(suppl 1):11