Lessons of History? Anti-Malaria Strategies of the International Health Board and the Rockefeller Foundation from the 1920s to the Era of DDT

A rich source for understanding the potentials and pitfalls of anti-malaria strategies is the history of two Rockefeller-endowed entities, the International Health Board and the Rockefeller Foundation, that created new approaches to malaria control in the first half of the 20th century. There is a didactic value in looking at the moments of controversy in the Rockefeller-malaria story, because they illuminate an evolving strategy, particularly the growing intention to completely eradicate malaria, not merely control it.