HANS ROSLING: Hi.
I'm Professor Hans Rosling.
I have three affiliations.
I'm here at Karolinska Institutet, the Medical University.
I'm co-founder of Gapminder Foundation, that fight devastating
ignorance about the world with graphics that everyone can understand.
And I'm a member of the Swedish Academy of Science.
If you take our course in global health, you'll
get to understand the huge difference in health between the countries,
but also within countries.
We'll explain how the poorest countries have diseases still
dominated by malnutrition, infections, and those sad complications
from pregnancies.
Whereas in the middle income countries, those in the middle,
where most people live today-- these are countries like Vietnam, Egypt, China,
Brazil, and Turkey.
In those middle income countries, the infections
are today being replaced by diseases like cancer, heart attack, depression,
and suicide.
And in the richest countries, well, the diseases on the rise
there are those of old age, such as dementia and osteroperosis.
Now, to make sense of this all, I will show you graphics like this.
Each bubble is country.
Size is population.
Blue, Africa.
Red, Asia.
Yellow, Europe.
And green, the Americas.
Vertical is child mortality.
From 30% of children dying before the age of five,
down to almost 0 child death.
Horizontal, number of babies born per woman, from 8 to less than 2.
In many people's mind, the world still looks like this, developing
and developed.
But it's a myth, because the world has improved
immensely in the last 50 years.
Here we go.
Year by year, child mortality fell in almost all countries.
And as child mortality fell, women chose to have fewer and fewer babies.
And that enabled them to invest more time and resources in each child.
By 1990, some of the so-called developing countries
had already made it down here.
Some were in between, and a few remained up here,
with very high child mortality.
Ethiopia had hardly moved at all.
It had passed through decades of famines and political turmoil.
Many people think that Ethiopia's still stuck up here.
But look what happens after 1990.
With improved access to health service in rural areas and well spent aid,
child mortality falls dramatically in Ethiopia.
And with better access to family planning,
women choose to have fewer and fewer babies.
Ethiopia has come halfway and is moving quickly down to this corner.
We are the core faculty of this course.
ASLI KULANE: I am Asli Kulane, associate professor at Karolinska Institute
at here, Stockholm, in Sweden.
I got my education in Mogadishu, Somalia.
My research area's infectious diseases in Africa.
HELENA NORDENSTEDT: And I'm Helena Nordenstedt.
I got my medical and research training in here at Karolinska.
And since I graduated, I have worked both in Norway,
one of the richest countries in the world,
and in eastern Congo, one of the poorest countries in the world.
Now, I teach global health.
ASLI KULANE: And this is our professor, Anna Mia Ekstrom.
She works so hard that she's not here today.
But her main area of research is HIV in Africa.
HANS ROSLING: I'm retired.
Anna Mia is the leader our research group.
ASLI KULANE: But you also get to meet other teachers from Karolinska
Institute that are studying things like child health, antibiotic resistance,
and how that service is best organized in different countries.
HELENA NORDENSTEDT: And since we have this famous professor,
we will let him show you the main health trends using
his favorite, beautiful, animated statistics.
HANS ROSLING: I'll do my very best.
And I promise you, by the end of this course,
you will have acquired a fact based world view.
Welcome to our course in global health.