Motion chart - Add to your homepage. Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view. Hans Rosling. Hans Rosling (born 27 July 1948)[1] is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker. He is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute[2] and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system.
Biography[edit] 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. 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. 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.
Gapminder[edit] Awards[edit] Hans Rosling at the Swedish pavilion of Expo 2010 in Shanghai Selected publications[edit] References[edit]