Hans Rosling

How and When India will be Superpower? Hans Rosling's TED Show 'Asia's rise' - PART 1

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Hans Rosling (born 27 July 1948, in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker. He is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. Study and Career 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. He became a licenced physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique. On 21 August 1981, Rosling discovered an outbreak of konzo, a paralytic disease, and the investigations that followed earned him a Ph.D. degree at Uppsala University in 1986. He spent two decades studying outbreaks of this disease in remote rural areas across Africa and supervised more than ten Ph.D. students. Outbreaks occur among hunger-stricken rural populations in Africa where a diet dominated by insufficiently processed cassava results in simultaneous malnutrition and high dietary cyanide intake. Rosling's research has also focused on other links between economic development, agriculture, poverty and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has been health adviser to WHO, UNICEF and several aid agencies. In 1993 he was one of the initiators of Médecins Sans Frontières in Sweden. At Karolinska Institutet he was head of the Division of International Health (IHCAR) from 2001 to 2007. As chairman of Karolinska International Research and Training Committee (1998--2004) he started health research collaborations with universities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. He started new courses on Global Health and co-authored a textbook on Global Health that promotes a fact-based world view. Rosling presented the television documentary The Joy of Stats, which was broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Four in December 2010. Awards * 2007 -- Statistician of the Year Award from the Swedish Association for Statistics * 2007 -- Jubilee Prize from the Swedish Medical Society * 2007 -- Knowledge Prize from the National Encyclopaedia of Sweden * 2008 -- Speaker of the Year from the Swedish Event Academy * 2008 -- The Big Debate Award from Dagens Medicine * 2009 -- Georg and Greta Borgstrom Award from the Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture and Forestry * 2010 -- Illis Quorum, Highest Award conferred by the Government of Sweden * 2010 -- The Big Prize from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden * 2010 -- Gold Medal from Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences * 2010 -- World Technology Award in Design together with Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Rönnlund * 2010 -- The Gannon Award for the Continued Pursuit of Human Advancement (US)