In this episode, we’ll explore how insecticide-treated bed nets helped cut malaria deaths in half in just a few years, uncovering the insight, inspiration, and challenges from the people who helped make it possible. We’ll hear from President Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania’s Head of State from 2005 to 2015 during the critical period of scale up of mosquito nets, and Ray Chambers, an international financier turned UN Special Envoy for Malaria and co-founder of Malaria No More.

In the past 20 years, simple innovations for malaria and other diseases, like bed nets, vaccines, rapid tests, and treatments have saved over 100 million lives. In our first episode, we hear from two pioneers at the heart of this global health revolution: John Bridgeland ("Bridge"), former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Bush, and Rear Admiral Tim Ziemer, the first U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator.

Together, they share how a unique convergence of global crises, political leadership, and ambitious vision laid the groundwork for the modern malaria campaign, driving the largest expansion of global health programming in history.