Hans Rosling
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Rosling at the 2012 Time 100 gala
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27 July 1948 Uppsala, Sweden |
| Institutions | Karolinska Institutet |
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Uppsala University St. John's Medical College |
| Thesis | Cassava, Cyanide, and Epidemic Spastic Paraparesis: A Study in Mozambique on Dietary Cyanide Exposure (1986) |
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Gapminder Foundation Trendalyzer |
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 The Best Stats You've Ever Seen
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Hans Rosling: Religions and babies
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How Not to Be Ignorant About the WorldAll from TED Talks
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Hans Rosling (born 27 July 1948) is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He is the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet 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.
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 began investigating an outbreak of konzo, a paralytic disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,. His investigations earned him a Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1986.
Rosling presented the television documentary The Joy of Stats, which was broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Four in December 2010. He presented a documentary Don't Panic – The Truth About Population for the This World series using a Musion 3D projection display, which appeared on BBC Two in the UK in November 2013. 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.
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