Hans Rosling on GAVI's targeted fight against poverty and disease
Professor Hans Rosling is a doctor and a professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. At the GAVI Partners' Forum, he showed how GAVI’s mission to increase access to immunisation fits into a new way of looking at global poverty and population trends.
06 December 2012
Using his trademark computerised graphs and information diagrams, Dr Rosling concluded that the eligibility criteria for GAVI support are unique in recognising a new world order no longer divided along traditional lines between developing and developed countries.
“I like GAVI because it is intellectually easier to understand why the line (for eligibility) is here,” said Dr Rosling.
