Creation of FSU National Supercourses:

"We decided to move forward on a Former Soviet Union Supercourse".

Supercourse team

About a year ago, we tried to get off the ground National Supercourses. We
send out information about the concept. The idea was that we would have one person
available in each country to collect health indicator information. Both WHO and the World
Bank have this information, but is not very user friendly, in that it is in tables, ours
will be in PowerPoint slides. Also, we can update the National Supercourses as the data
themselves are updated, thus our data will be more timely. By having the health indices in
a user friendly format, e.g. PowerPoint, we can get it into the classrooms of the world very
quickly. Also, it will be rapidly updated. Our system this is different than WHO and World
Bank, in that it is a graphic format, simple and timely. We do not complete with them, we
compliment them.

When we first started we were discouraged as only 30 countries joined. However, now we
will focus on the FSU countries. Each will provide the data, and either we will put it up
on our server, or they will bring up the national supercourse at their university or MOH.
They will be designed as the head of the national supercourse.

Here is Russian Health Profile and template for next FSU lectures.