Thorkild Tylleskär is a paediatrician and professor in International Health. His focus is on child health in a global perspective, neonatal care, HIV, nutrition and infections and health informatics. He has his medical degree, his PhD training and his specialist training in paediatrics from Uppsala University. He has a Master in African Linguistics from Sorbonne University after field work in present-day Democratic Republic of Congo. His medical thesis in 1994 under the supervision of late Prof Hans Rosling describes the toxico-nutritional causation of ‘konzo’, a paralytic disorder permanently crippling women and children in some pockets in Africa. He has authored over 200 publications in PubMed and supervised over 40 PhD candidates, the majority from Africa. He is in charge of several courses in global health, one of them on how to run clinical trials in low-resource settings. He is the coordinator for the collaboration between University of Bergen and Makerere University in Uganda.