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Eugene Shubnikov

Eugene Shubnikov, MD, is research scientist of the Laboratory of clinical, population and prevention studies of therapeutic and endocrine diseases, Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia from 1986. He is also a developer of the Global Health network Supercourse project in Public Health, Epidemiology and Internet since 2000. He graduated from Novosibirsk Medical Institute, Novosibirsk in 1985. Member of the European Association for the study of Diabetes since 1992. He received fellowship under State Department Freedom Support Act at University of Pittsburgh. He graduated School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology in 2000. Moderator of Internet prevention program for Former Soviet Union countries in the frame of Global Library of Lectures -Supercourse Project since 2000 - www.pitt.edu/~super1. Developer of BA Science SuperCourse Project since 2008 - http://ssc.bibalex.org/about/aboutsupercourse.jsf. The BA Science Supercourse is a project designed to network scientists and to empower educators around the world through the sharing of scientific lectures online for free. It represents an extended scope to the initial Supercourse Project housed at the University of Pittsburgh. The current Science Supercourse is designed to expand beyond the topics of Health and Preventive Medicine, to encompass other areas of science, namely Environment, Agriculture and Computer Engineering in addition to Public Health. The project is an extended joint endeavor between the Library of Alexandria in Egypt and the WHO Collaborating Centre at the University of Pittsburgh. Science Supercourse does not grant degrees or certificates, but is designed to be a repository of resources for teachers, professors, and other educators to use as they see fit in their teaching of science. The BA Science Supercourse was launched at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt in January 2009, under the direction of Dr. Ismail Serageldin, the Director of the Library.

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