Abstract
Each of us—each of you—sitting here tonight is working hard every day to make the world a better—and a healthier—place. Whether you dispense pretravel advice and vaccines or splice trypanosome genes, whether you are responding to the Ebola epidemic or designing a malaria-refractory mosquito, the spirit that animates your work is one of beneficence, generosity, and peace.
Highlights
We do not live in a beneficent and peaceful world
Several of these wars were fought over commercial interests—both the Acre War on the Brazil–Bolivia border and Bailundo Revolt in Angola involved rubber plantation workers who revolted against forced labor, or whose livelihoods were threatened by economic or political changes
Life has not gotten much better for many plantation workers in the last 100 years—earlier this year mass graves containing the bodies of dozens of Burmese migrant workers were found in forced labor camps on rubber plantations on the Thailand–Malaysia border
Summary
We do not live in a beneficent and peaceful world. In 1903, the year our parent society, the American Society of Tropical Medicine, was formed, 15 wars were taking place worldwide. One of her projects is called “Malaria as a Catalyst for Social Change”—her idea was to use a shared goal of combating malaria to build new trust and cooperation between diverse groups in Myanmar, including not just civilian and military malaria workers and community-based organizations associated with the ethnic militias in border areas who had long histories of conflict with the government.
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