Hans Rosling
Hans Gösta Rosling ( born July 27, 1948 in Uppsala, Sweden) is Professor of International Health at institutions promote Folkhälsovetenskap the Karolinska Institute and Director of the Gapminder Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
Life
From 1967 to 1974 Rosling studied medicine and one semester statistics at Uppsala University in 1972 and Public Health at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore, India. 1974 Rosling received the license to practice medicine, and in 1978 his diploma in Nutrition, Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Uppsala University, also at the University of Uppsala. In 1977 he completed his years of study International Aid and Disaster Relief on the Sandö School in Sweden. From 1979 to 1981 he worked as a medical officer ( District Medical Officer ) in Nacala in northern Mozambique.
On 21 August 1981 Rosling discovered an outbreak of a previously unknown disease that caused paralysis. For the study of this disease, he received the Ph.D. doctoral degree at the University of Uppsala in 1986. He spent a total of two decades with the study of disease in remote rural areas in Africa and supervised more than ten Ph.D. students here. His research group named the new disease Konzo, which is the local name of the first affected population. Konzo outbreaks occur in the plagued by hunger rural populations in Africa where malnutrition is done by inadequately processed cassava with simultaneous high Cyanidaufnahme through food.
His research has also extended to other links between economic development, agriculture, health and poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America. 1983-1996 was Rosling consultant to the World Health Organization ( WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, the Swedish National Agency for International Development Cooperation, the Department for Research Cooperation Sida ( SAREC ) and several aid agencies.
1990 Rosling was promoted to Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Uppsala University and was appointed Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet in 1999. 1993 Rosling was a founding member of Doctors Without Borders in Sweden ( läkare utan Gränser ). Since 1998, Rosling Chairman of the Research and Training Programme ( KIRT ) and a member of the International Commission de Karolinska Institutet. At Karolinska Institutet was Rosling 2001-2007 Head of Department of International Health ( IHCAR ). Since 2005 he is member of the International Group of the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Gapminder Foundation founded Rosling together with his son Ola Rosling and his daughter Anna Rosling Rönnlund. Gapminder Trendalyzer the software has developed, the ( international ) Statistics understandable and interactive shows. The goal is to promote a fact based world view through increased use and understanding of freely accessible public statistics. His supported by Gapminder lectures and presentations for the visualization of the world have won partly Awards. The interactive animations are available free on the Gapminder website. In March 2007, Google Inc. took over the software Trendalyzer with the intention to expand this and make it freely available worldwide.
Works (selection)
- Lindstrand A, Bergtröm S, Rosling H, Rubensson B, Stenson B, Tylleskär T ( 2006). GLOBAL HEALTH an introductory textbook Lund: ISBN 978-91-44-02198-0 Studentlitteratur
- Onabolu AO, Oluwole OS, Bokanga M, Rosling H ( 2001). Ecological variation of intake of cassava food and dietary cyanide load in Nigerian communities. Public Health Nutrition. 4 (4): 871-6 PMID 11527510
- Oluwole OS, Onabolu AO, Link H, Rosling H ( 2000). Persistence of tropical ataxic neuropathy in a Nigerian community. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 69 (1): 96-101 PMID 10864612