He discoverd konzo, a new epidemic paralytic disease, when serving as doctor in Mocambique 1979-81. Two decades of research in rural Africa traced the cause to toxic ill-processed cassava roots, hunger and poverty. Co-founded Médecines sans Frontier Sweden. Started courses and wrote textbook on Global Health. Initiated university collaborations with Asia and Africa. Co-founded Gapminder that unveils the beuty of statistics by turning boring numbers into enjoyable animations that make sense of the world.He writes a blog here
He gave a talk at TED about the changing conditions in the part of the world also known as third world. He showed marked changes in different countries that have occurred in the recent years in family size,infant mortality rates, and overall health. He used very innovative techniques from data visualization including animation to present vast amount of statistical data about these human conditions.
The video of his talk at TED
Also his website Gapminder where one can interactively explore the world data as shown in the video above.
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