![]() ![]() Rosling presented the television documentary The Joy of Stats, which was broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Four in December 2010 and has been made available to 'catch up' on BBC iPlayer since. ![]() ![]() In 1981, he began investigating an outbreak of konzo, a paralytic disease first described in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He became a licensed physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India. From 1967 to 1974, he studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University, and in 1972 he studied public health at St. Rosling was born in Uppsala, Sweden, on 28 July 1948. His posthumously published book Factfulness, coauthored with his daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund and son Ola Rosling, became an international bestseller. He held presentations around the world, including several TED Talks in which he promoted the use of data (and data visualization) to explore development issues. He was a professor of international health at Karolinska Institute and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. Hans Rosling ( Swedish pronunciation: 27 July 1948 – 7 February 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic and public speaker. Grierson Awards - Best Science Documentary: 2011 Ĭassava, Cyanide, and Epidemic Spastic Paraparesis: A Study in Mozambique on Dietary Cyanide Exposure (1986) ![]() The World's 100 Most Influential People: 2012 ![]()
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