During the opening session of weeklong workshop aimed at developing leaders in the effort to eradicate malaria, Dyann F. Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Disease speaks inside Aldrich Hall at HBS at Harvard University. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

A group of scientists, government officials, nonprofit leaders, malaria-control program directors, and others gathered at Harvard Business School this week sought to draw lessons from past eradication efforts as they embarked on a weeklong leadership program focused on eradicating another age-old scourge: malaria.

Read coverage of the 2015 Science of Eradication: Malaria course on Harvard Gazette