Hans Rosling

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Hans Gösta Rosling (* July 27, 1948 in Uppsala , Sweden ; † February 7, 2017 there ) was Professor of International Health at the Karolinska Institutet and Director of the Gapminder Foundation in Stockholm . He has lectured around the world, including a few TED Talks , promoting the use of statistics to analyze development problems. His posthumously published book Factfulness , which he wrote together with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund, became an international bestseller.

Hans Rosling (2012)

Life

From 1967 to 1974 Rosling studied medicine and statistics for one semester at Uppsala University and in 1972 public health at St. John's Medical College in Bengaluru in southern India . 1974 Rosling received at Uppsala University, the approval of a doctor and 1978 ibid his degree in Nutrition, Public Health and Tropical Medicine. In 1977 he also completed an annual degree in International Aid and Disaster Relief at the Sandö School . From 1979 to 1981 he finally worked as a medical officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique .

On August 21, 1981, Rosling discovered an outbreak of a previously unknown disease that caused paralysis . For research into this disease, he received the Ph.D. - Doctoral degree from Uppsala University. He spent a total of two decades researching diseases in remote rural areas in Africa , supervising more than ten PhD students . His research group named the new disease Konzo , which is the local name of the population affected first. The cause of Konzo outbreaks are cyanogenic glycosides , which are ingested through inadequately processed cassava .

His research has also extended to other links between economic development, agriculture, health and poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America . From 1983 to 1996 Rosling was an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Swedish Central Agency for International Development Cooperation (especially its Research Cooperation Department) and several aid organizations .

In 1990 Rosling was appointed Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Uppsala University and in 1999 Professor of International Health at the Institutions för Folkhälsovetenskap of the Karolinska Institutet . In 1993 he was also one of the founding members of Doctors Without Borders in Sweden (Läkare Utan Gränser) . Since 1998 Rosling has been chairman of the research and training program (KIRT) and a member of the international committee of the Karolinska Institutet . There he was head of the Department of International Health (IHCAR) from 2001 to 2007. Since 2005 he has been a member of the International Group of the Swedish Academy of Sciences .

Rosling founded the Gapminder Foundation together with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund . Gapminder has developed the Trendalyzer software , which displays (international) statistics in a more understandable and interactive way. The aim is to promote a factual view of the world through the increased use and understanding of freely available public statistics. Some of his lectures and presentations on the visualization of the world, supported by Gapminder , have won awards. The interactive animations are available free of charge on the Gapminder website. In 2007, the Gapminder Foundation sold the source code of Trendalyzer to Google . Anna and Ola Rosling then worked for three years at the Google headquarters to expand it and make it freely available worldwide. The proceeds enabled Rosling to reduce his position at the Karolinska Institutet to 10% and to work on the production of YouTube videos at Gapminder under the job title "Edutainer" .

During the Ebola virus epidemic in 2014 , Rosling canceled his lectures and traveled to Liberia to help and contribute his expertise. In the same year he received the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society . In 2016, Hans Rosling, together with his son and daughter-in-law, received the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award . The book Factfulness , co-authored by Hans Rosling , was named “ Knowledge Book of the Year ” by Bild der Wissenschaft in 2018 .

According to the Gapminder Foundation, Hans Rosling suffered from pancreatic cancer , which was diagnosed in 2016 and of the consequences of which he died on February 7, 2017.

Works

  • with O. Rosling, A. Rosling Rönnlund: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Flatiron 2018, ISBN 9781250123817 .
    • dt .: factfulness - how we learn to see the world as it really is. Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-08182-8 .
  • with Fanny Härgestam: Hur jag lärde mig förstå världen. Nature & Culture, Stockholm 2017.
  • with A. Lindstrand, S. Bergström, B. Rubensson, B. Stenson and T. Tylleskär: Global Health. An Introductory Textbook. Student literature, Lund 2006, ISBN 91-44-02198-4 .
  • with AO Onabolu, OS Oluwole and M. Bokanga: Ecological variation of intake of cassava food and dietary cyanide load in Nigerian communities. In: Public Health Nutrition. 4 (4), 2001, pp. 871-876, PMID 11527510 .
  • with OS Oluwole, AO Onabolu and H. Link: Persistence of tropical ataxic neuropathy in a Nigerian community. In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 69 (1), 2000, pp. 96-101, PMID 10864612 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Rosling  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Rosling avled 68 år gammal efter en tids sjukdom. February 7, 2017, Retrieved February 1, 2019 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ Hans Rosling. Ted.com, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sad to announce: Hans Rosling passed away this morning. Gapminder Foundation , February 7, 2017, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ How a book offering a bright worldview became a surprise bestseller. In: Evening Standard. July 2, 2019, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b heise online: Fighters against the post-factual age: On the death of Hans Rosling. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  6. ^ WP Howlett, GR Brubaker, N. Mlingi, Hans Rosling: Konzo, an epidemic upper motor neuron disease studied in Tanzania. Brain, Vol. 113, No. 1, 1990, pp. 223-235 , archived from the original on January 16, 2010 ; accessed on February 7, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Hans Rosling: How I learned to understand the world. Page 207, Ullstein, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-550-20058-8 .
  8. ^ Kai Kupferschmidt: Star statistician Hans Rosling takes on Ebola . sciencemag.org, December 2, 2014, accessed February 7, 2017.
    Hans Rosling: How to beat Ebola . BBC News , March 25, 2015, posted on YouTube , accessed February 7, 2017 (3:28 pm; English).
  9. ↑ Leonardo Award 2016. Research Institut / leonardo-award.eu, accessed on September 19, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Sad to announce: Hans Rosling passed away this morning. gapminder.org, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Gregeor Honsel: In the service of humanity , Review of Factfulness in Technology Review from August 9, 2018, accessed August 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Rosling, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosling, Hans Gösta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish doctor, researcher, statistician and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2017
Place of death Uppsala , Sweden