I very much appreciate all your thoughts and advise. It appears that there is considerable interest world wide in our efforts to establish an Islamic Global Health Network.
Well, this is my first week in the University Pittsburgh, I have been discussing with Ron and others in the Center how can we expand our group and move on with the work. At this point the most important effort is to recruit worldwide those interested in the Internet, Islam and Health. Included, as an attachment is a brief summary of the Islamic Global Health Network. We have found the best way to bring more people into the network would be for you to contact some of your friends to have them join. Also, it would be wonderful if you could send information about the IGHNet to your friends, and encourage them to pass it on to others. Recruitment needs to be our top priority.
It is most interesting as I have gone through the total Supercourse faculty of 4000 faculty and discovered 195 who are Muslims. We are sending letters to them now.
The IGHNet Supercourse can now also begin. We are preparing a general lecture on Islam, Prevention and the Internet. This will be available shortly. We would very much like for you to join. Izzeldin suggested a lecture on disease prevention-Islamic tools as well. By the end of the year we hope to have 500 people worldwide and 40 lectures.
During the next few weeks in Pittsburgh I will create a set of slides for presentation on the Islamic Health Network. I will send this to all of you so you can present the concept at professional meetings, to you government and to students.
The Supercourse would be called Islamic Health Supercourse.
To our knowledge, this has never been done before. As such we need to work together as a team to create something that could have a major impact on Islamic Health worldwide. This newsletter will be posted on our home page. The Islamic Health home page will be now linked to the Supercourse. I am also contacting many of the major home pages concerned with Islamic Health requesting that they link to our site.
By the way, if any of you does not have the Supercourse CD yet, please email and I will get it post it for you.
If you want to be removed from this list please send an unsubscribe message to (islamicprevention@hotmail.com).
Abed
Abdullatif Husseini, MS MPH PhD (Can.)
Lecturer and Researcher
Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University
Newsletter 2
Dear Friends,
Its hot and sunny in Pittsburgh, some humidity, but it is really good weather. I am sure it is like this in many of your cities.
We had a very busy and exciting week, nearly everyday we have new members emailing and saying that they would like to be a part of the Islamic Global Health Network (IGHNet).
I would like to thank all of you old and new members for their efforts in expanding our human and thus our scientific base. But keep up the good work as we still need to recruit more people.
The Islamic supercourse homepage is up and running now, you can access it fromm the main supercourse homepage or directly from this url:
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ighn.htm
We have four lectures, which are lectures by muslim contributors double listed in the main supercourse and the Islamic supercourse, If any of you would like to double list his lecture just send me an email and I will do that immediately.
Please send me your comments, suggestions, and how do you think we can develop this further together.
Also it is the time now to contribute lectures to be listed in both the Islamic and the main supercourses, so I urge you to send me the title and the date of your lecture as soon as possible. I hope that we will have at least 20 lectures posted before the end of this year.
Well I know that this is vacation time for many of us, but just decide the title and the time, and I am sure that most of you will be able to do it even sooner than your proposed date.
The new Islamic supercourse home page has also a link to the Islamic Global Health Network (IGHNet), so please distribute it to any body interested and ask them to join our network, this includes your students, friends, co-workers..etc.
hoping to hear from you soon,
abed
Newsletter 3
Newsletter 11Oct 2001
Dear friends,
100 members
I am thrilled to tell that the number of our network (IGHNet) members had crossed the 100 line today. Our community in growing and people from all faiths are joining in this humanitarian empowerment effort providing free access to information for action for all those who need it. I urge to contribute in spreading this message, so please send this news letter to five of your friends, and invite them to join.
Also it is a good time for those of you thinking of contributing poerpoint lectures to be double listed in the main and islamic supercourse.
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Arab Republic of Egypt Minister of Health and Population
The supercourse has established contact with the Egyptian Ministry of Health, please find below a message from Ron , about this issue:
((( Dear friends,
We got a very nice response from Professor Ismail Sallam, the Minister of Health and Population for Egypt. The note is presented below.
The is a wonderful opportunity to being to "seed" the Supercourse across Egypt, and potentially across the rest of the Arab world. Abed and I would like your advise as to what would be the best direction to procede with the Minister, Egypt and other countries.
Things are moving!
ron
Newsletter 4
18-Dec-2001
Frineds,
Hoping that all of you are enjoying the holidays.
Our IGHNet is continuing to grow and new members are joining the network.
We are working with the Egyptian MOH to translate the supercourse lectures into Arabic. Rania Saad from the MOH is doing a great job in coordinating the project. Translation into other languages is also welcomed.
We have added two wonderful lectures to the islamic supercourse:
1- The Herbal Treatment of Diseases . Izzeldin S.Hussein
2- Health Care Market. Nabilla al-Sadat
Both authors are active members in our network.
Some members and friends are working on new lectures. All lectures will be double listed in both the main and the islamic supercourses. Please select some of your lectures to contribute to the supercourse. Also, if you have contributed previously any lectures to the main supercourse and you want it to be double listed in the islamic supercourse , just send us an email, and the link will be added promptly.
We have received a nice email from a staff nurse doing her thesis on an interesting subject, please find below her email and help her if you can:
((Salam aliakoum
I am a staff nurse working in a general hospital, at the moment I am doing a dessertation (research) on CARING AFTER A MUSLIM PATIENT in particular death and dying,etc... in regard to nursing. It will be very appreciated if you could send me research articles studies in regard to the subject or any relevant articles.
you can email me at: nrb97kb@hotmail.com
THANKYOU
SALAMALAIKOUM ))
take care and hoping to hear from you soon,
abed
Newsletter 5
April, 2002
Dear friends,
Salam allaikum,
It has been some time since I wrote to you. Please forgive me as I was very busy with my PhD.
Things are going well now and we are getting new members all the time including today.
We have 3 new lectures in the islamic supercourse:
1- Child Health and Islam: Lessons for health promotion , a very nice lecture by Nicola Ruck, this is the first lecture focusing on the islamic perspective, please look at it and send comments if any directly to Nicola's email.
2- Screening
3- Rift Valley Fever
Both are authored by Dr Shereine shawky, who is going to send another 6 lectures soon to the main supercourse and that will also be listed in the islamic supercourse.
Other lectures are being prepared including the one about IGHNet, which will be ready soon InshaAllah.
Rania Saad, our group member from Egypt is doing great work in translation to Arabic ,a nd hopefully we will start an arabic supercourse soon.
Hoping to hear from you soon, write me your ideas, comments ..etc
