Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling

Rosling at the 2012 Time 100 gala
Born (1948-07-27) 27 July 1948
Uppsala, Sweden
Institutions Karolinska Institutet
Alma mater Uppsala University
St. John's Medical College
Thesis Cassava, Cyanide, and Epidemic Spastic Paraparesis: A Study in Mozambique on Dietary Cyanide Exposure (1986)
Known for Gapminder Foundation
Trendalyzer

Hans Rosling (born 27 July 1948)[1] is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He is the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet[2] and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. He rose to international celebrity status after producing a Ted Talk in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues.

Biography

Rosling was born in Uppsala, Sweden. From 1967 to 1974 Rosling studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University, and in 1972 he studied public health at St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India. He became a licensed physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique.

On 21 August 1981, Rosling discovered an outbreak of konzo, a paralytic disease,[3][4] and the investigations that followed earned him a Ph.D. degree at Uppsala University in 1986. He spent two decades studying outbreaks of this disease in remote rural areas across Africa and supervised more than ten Ph.D. students. Outbreaks occur among hunger-stricken rural populations in Africa where a diet dominated by insufficiently processed cassava results in simultaneous malnutrition and high dietary cyanide intake.[4]

Rosling's research has also focused on other links between economic development, agriculture, poverty and health.[5] He has been health adviser to WHO, UNICEF and several aid agencies. In 1993 he was one of the initiators of Médecins Sans Frontières in Sweden.[6] At Karolinska Institutet he was head of the Division of International Health (IHCAR) from 2001 to 2007. As chairman of the Karolinska International Research and Training Committee (1998–2004) he started health research collaborations with universities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. He started new courses on Global Health and co-authored a textbook on Global Health that promotes a fact-based world view.

Rosling presented the television documentary The Joy of Stats, which was broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Four in December 2010.[7] He presented a documentary Don't Panic – The Truth About Population for the This World series using a Musion 3D projection display,[8] which appeared on BBC Two in the UK in November 2013.[9] In 2015, he presented the documentary Don't Panic: How to End Poverty in 15 Years, which was produced by Wingspan and aired on the BBC just ahead of the annunciation of the Sustainable Development Goals.[10][11]

Gapminder

Hans Rosling narrates 'Why Boat Refugees Don't Fly! - Factpod 16'. A video about the European refugee/migrant crisis produced by the Gapminder Foundation
External video
The Best Stats You've Ever Seen[12]
Hans Rosling: Religions and babies[13]
How Not to Be Ignorant About the World[14] All from TED Talks

Rosling co-founded the Gapminder Foundation together with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund. Gapminder developed the Trendalyzer software that converts international statistics into moving, interactive graphics. His lectures using Gapminder graphics to visualise world development have won awards.[15] The interactive animations are freely available from the Foundation's website. On 16 March 2007 Google acquired the Trendalyzer software with the intention to scale it up and make it freely available for public statistics. In 2008 Google made available a Motion Chart Google Gadget and in 2009 the Public Data Explorer.[16] Rosling is also a sword swallower, as demonstrated in the final moments of his second talk at the TED conference.[17] In 2009 he was listed as one of 100 leading global thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine,[18] and in 2011 as one of 100 most creative people in business by the Fast Company Magazine.[19] In 2011 he was elected member of the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and in 2012 as member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Personal health

When he was 20, doctors told Rosling that there was something wrong with his liver and as a consequence Rosling stopped drinking alcohol. In 1989, Rosling was diagnosed with hepatitis C. Over the years this progressed and Rosling developed liver cirrhosis. In the beginning of 2013 he was in early stages of liver failure. However, at the same time new Hepatitis C drugs were released and Rosling went to Japan to buy the drugs needed for curing the infection. He has since expressed concerns in media over the restricted use of the new drugs due to high costs, stating that it is a crime to not give every person with hepatitis C access to the drugs.[20][21][22]

Awards

Hans Rosling at the Swedish pavilion of Expo 2010 in Shanghai

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when". TED Conferences. November 2009. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
  2. ↑ "Hans Rosling". Karolinska Institutet. Professor of Public Health Science at the Department of Public Health Sciences since 1997
  3. ↑ Trolli, G (1938). "Paraplégie spastique épidémique,'Konzo'des indigènes du Kwango". Résumé des observations réunies, au Kwango. Brussels.
  4. 1 2 Howlett, W. P.; Brubaker, G. R.; Mlingi, N.; Rosling, H. (1990). "Konzo, an Epidemic Upper Motor Neuron Disease Studied in Tanzania". Brain. 113: 223–235. doi:10.1093/brain/113.1.223. PMID 2302534.
  5. ↑ Hans Rosling (2006). Global Health: An Introductory Textbook. Studentlitteratur AB,Sweden. ISBN 91-44-02198-4.
  6. ↑ "Hans Rosling: 'No such thing as Swedish values' - The Local". Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  7. ↑ "The Joy of Stats". BBC Four. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010.
  8. ↑ "BBC - Hans Rosling returns to BBC for series of programmes on population - Media Centre". Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Don't Panic – The Truth About Population". BBC Two. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
  10. ↑ "This World, Don't Panic - How to End Poverty in 15 Years". BBC iPlayer. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  11. ↑ The Gapminder's website lists information on the empirical data and research used as the basis for the documentary "Don’t Panic, How to End Poverty": http://www.gapminder.org/news/data-sources-dont-panic-end-poverty/ The sources used are World Bank data, Overseas Development Institute data, research results by Branko Milanovic, Our World in Data, and information from the Demographic and Health Surveys program. The research team included Hans Rosling, Max Roser, and Ola Rosling.
  12. ↑ "The Best Stats You've Ever Seen". TED Talks. February 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "Hans Rosling: Religions and babies". TED Talks. April 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  14. ↑ "How Not to Be Ignorant About the World". TED Talks. February 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "Awards". Gapminder. Archived from the original on 17 January 2009.
  16. ↑ "Public data explorer". Google. April 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
  17. ↑ "Hans Rosling's new insights on poverty". TED Conferences. March 2007. Archived from the original on 25 February 2009. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
  18. ↑ "Top 100 Global Thinkers 2009". Foreign Policy. December 2009. Archived from the original on 1 December 2009. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
  19. ↑ "100 Most Creative in Business 2011". Fast Company. May 2011. Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
  20. ↑ Hans Rosling om sin egen hepatit C-behandling - Nyhetsmorgon (TV4). 9 July 2014 – via YouTube.
  21. ↑ "Hans Rosling: läkare måste stå upp för sina hepatitpatienter".
  22. ↑ "Nu kan hepatit C botas – men många får vänta". DN.SE.
  23. ↑ "Dr. Hans Rosling". The Gannon Award.
  24. ↑ "Hans Rosling one of four new honorary doctors at Faculty of Science and Technology - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
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