Institution: International Health Division

“My body was shaking uncontrollably, my teeth were chattering,” remembered Nathan Leopold. “You think from moment to moment that your head is going to split, and you wish to gosh it would!”Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Life Plus 99 Years (Greenwood Press, 1974), 321. Describing the viciousness of the malaria with which he was purposely infected in…

A massive program in nursing education extended to 53 schools across the globe. But it never became a top priority of the foundation that supported it.

Programs designed to build public health infrastructure, eradicate disease, and increase access to healthcare have formed the core of more than a hundred years of one foundation’s strategy.