Background
Kallings, Lars Olof was born on January 1, 1930 in Stockholm, Sweden. Son of Aron and Agnes Kallings.
Kallings, Lars Olof was born on January 1, 1930 in Stockholm, Sweden. Son of Aron and Agnes Kallings.
Doctor of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1961.
Associate professor virology Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1961—1962. Professor, head, department bacteriolo National Bacteriological Laboratory, 1963—1981, director general, 1982—1988. Vice president, executive board World Health Organization, Geneva, 1988—1990, director, science & policy affairs, 1990—1994, chairman global aids commission, 1988—1990.
Founding president International Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Society, Stockholm, 1988, secretary general, 1994—2002. Assistant secretary general, special envoy of secretary general for Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Eastern Europe and Central Asia United Nations, New York City, 2003—2008.
Married Ingegerd Elisabeth Westin, 1977. Married Kerstin Blom (divorced 1952). Children: Torun Elisabeth, Peter, Christina, Birgitta, Lena.