

Public health systems in the US and many other countries are poorly prepared for severe (Actually we handle the majority well!) natural and man made disasters. Teachers and public health educators across the country and worldwide have only limited materials to educate their students on the risk and risk factors of West Nile virus, avian flu, bioterrorism, and other disasters. The Global Network Supercourse group provides a model that can help to exchange educational materials rapidly and at low cost. The Supercourse group (Do you capitalize “group?”) developed a large number of scientific lectures on public health preparedness and disasters, and made them available through the Supercourse network of over 38,000 scientists 151 countries. This article describes a novel approach of; i-Prevention, the application of the Internet to prevent bioterrorism and other threats. Additionally, the paper outlines the concept of community watch and its applicability to the modern era of the Internet technologies. A neighborhood watch is where people in communities ban together to watch over each other, the neighbors, and communities are deterrents against crime. The principles of the neighborhood watch can be established on the Internet, with a Global Health network neighborhood watch to act as a deterrent against bioterrorism and other disaster, and mitigate the damage should an attack occur.