Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement,

and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore.

Our goal is to bring evidence and experience to illuminate critical public health issues.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith RogersRogers, producer of public health on call.

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infection that affects some 228 million people globally each year,

killing over 400,000 of them, primarily children under the age of five.

In a two-part mini-series, Thomas Locke, host of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute

podcast, Malaria Minute, will unpack the biology and history of one of the world's most

serious health problems.

Today, part two looks back at 1955, when the WHO launched its global malaria eradication program

that was expected to end malaria worldwide in five years.

What went wrong and where are we now in terms of efforts to fight back against one of the

world's most entrenched diseases?

You can learn more about groundbreaking malaria research at malaria. jhspspsh.edu.

That's malaria.j.jpspsh.edu. Let's listen. Take a second to think about some of the recent

public health stories you've read, maybe COVID, monkeypox, or another global health threat. But what about

malaria? Because year after year, malaria claims millions of lives, with over half a million

deaths in 2020 alone. So how, in the course of new disease outbreaks coming and going and being

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