In this episode of The Best Worst Thing, we’ll discuss how global efforts to end malaria can get derailed by a range of challenges: financial, political and epidemiological. 
To tell that story, we’ll be speaking with a true living legend: the first woman elected to lead an African nation, former President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, who found herself dealing with multiple health crises when Liberia experienced an Ebola outbreak in 2014.

Outsmarting Malaria

This is ‘The Best Worst Thing,’ a series where we explore the ongoing story of the global fight to eradicate malaria. Through personal stories and interviews with global health leaders, innovators, and advocates, we uncover the challenges and breakthroughs in this monumental fight, proving that while malaria is one of the worst things on the planet, fighting it is arguably the best humanitarian investment in the world today. The best worst thing.