1. Hans Rosling 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.
18 Facts About Hans Rosling
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Hans Rosling's posthumously published book Factfulness, coauthored with his daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Ronnlund and son Ola Rosling, became an international bestseller.
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Hans Rosling became a licensed physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique.
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Hans 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.
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Hans Rosling was a sword swallower, as demonstrated in the final moments of his second talk at the TED conference.
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Hans Rosling was included in the Time 100 list of the world's 100 most influential people in 2012.
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Hans Rosling spent two decades studying outbreaks of konzo, a paralytic disease, in remote rural areas across Africa and supervised more than ten PhD students.
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Hans Rosling worked as full-time consultant to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency on primary health care from 1984 to 1990 and then as their consultant on HIV until 1994, traveling often to Sida program countries.
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Hans Rosling was at this time based at the Maternal and Child Care Department at Uppsala University.
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Hans Rosling was a health adviser to the World Health Organization, UNICEF and several aid agencies.
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Hans Rosling started new courses on global health and co-authored a textbook on global health that promotes a fact-based worldview.
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Hans Rosling co-founded the Gapminder Foundation together with his son Ola and daughter-in-law Anna Hans Rosling Ronnlund to develop Trendalyzer to convert international statistics into moving, interactive graphics.
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Hans Rosling expressed concerns in the media over the restricted use of the new drugs due to high costs, stating that it is a crime not to give every person with hepatitis C access to the drugs.
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Hans Rosling was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2016, and died of the disease on 7 February 2017.
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Hans Rosling is commonly described as an optimist, though he personally rejected the label.
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Hence, Hans Rosling has been criticized as being Pollyannaist about the global political situation in the face of tragedies such as the long-running conflict in Syria, among others.
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Hans Rosling always used his fame to draw attention to the living conditions of the worst off and to denounce the lack of support they were receiving from the large group of people in the world that is living in unprecedented comfort.
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Hans Rosling's message was never that all is good; the enthusiasm for his work came from the fact that he was always convinced that a better world is possible if we care to work towards it.