Profile: Arata Kochi: shaking up the malaria world

Abstract

In malaria, just as he did when he ran WHO's tuberculosis programme, he has begun by methodically reviewing the problems in disease control, mapping out the technical solutions, and then implementing them. Kochi "depicted the devastating impact of tuberculosis around the world in such a clear and forceful manner that it changed the public health focus of the WHO, national governments, and leading voluntary organisations", wrote Sbarbaro.