Swedish
Job
Professor of International Health at the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Experience
After studies in statistics and medicine at Uppsala University, in Sweden, he served as a doctor in northern Mozambique from 1979 to 1981. Besides managing health and hospital service for 360,000 inhabitants he investigated an outbreak of the Konzo, an unknown paralytic disease, in a drought-stricken rural area.
His research started with analysis of links between poverty, hunger, gender relations and health. It now deals with links between health and absolute poverty at both the micro and macro levels.
He created Gapminder, a free software that turns boring development statistics into attractive, understandable and interactive moving graphics.
He cofounded Médecins sans Frontières Sweden.
Network
Relief workers and reseachers fond of using software possibilities to communicate scientific data. If you want to know what Hans Rosling has to say, take a look at his blog : http://roslingsblogger.blogspot.com/
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