Professor Rosling's 5 points on the global changes are
- There are no longer two types of countries in the world, the old division into industrialized and developing countries has been replaced by 192 countries on a continuum of socio-economic development.
- Many Asian countries are now improving twice as fast as Europe ever did.
- A new gap may form between 5 billion people moving towards healthy lives with education, cell phones, electricity, washing machines and health service and more than 1 billion people stuck in the vicious circle of absolute poverty and disease.
- So far all progress towards health and wealth has been achieved at the prize of increased CO2 emission that drives the eminent climate crisis.
- There are reasons for optimism regarding the future of the world because the world is so poorly governed at present. Hence we have enormous opportunities to improve the life of all humans by turning our already converging world into an equal, secure, sustainable and free place to live in.
Professor Rosling co-founded Gapminder Foundation (http://www.gapminder.org/), which promotes a fact based world view by converting the international statistics into moving, interactive, understandable and enjoyable graphics. Hans Rosling lectures about past and contemporary economic, social and environmental changes in the world.
Hans Rosling is professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, the medical university in Stockholm, Sweden. When working as a young doctor in Mozambique he discovered a formerly unrecognized paralytic disease that his research team named konzo. His 20 years of research on global health concerned the character of the links between economy and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
He has been adviser to WHO and UNICEF, co-founded Médecines sans Frontiers in Sweden and started new courses and published a textbook on Global Health. He is member of the International Group of the Swedish Academy of Science and of the Global Agenda Network of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
Videos of Rosling's presentations 
Jorma Rantanen Lecture
Each year, the FIOH chooses a speaker for the Jorma Rantanen Lecture: a research scientist or professional who is internationally renowned for their exceptional contribution to the field of occupational health and safety. This tradition is in honour of Professor Jorma Rantanen, who was the Director General of FIOH for 30 years, and who retired in November 2003.
Additional information:
professor Hans Rosling, professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Director of Gapminder Foundation
e-mail: hans.rosling@ki.se
web: www.gapminder.org
Kristiina Kulha, Head of Communications in the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, tel. + 358 40 548 6914, email kristiina.kulha@ttl.fi