In this episode of The Best Worst Thing, we’ll discuss how global efforts to end malaria can get derailed by a range of challenges: financial, political and epidemiological. 

To tell that story, we’ll be speaking with a true living legend: the first woman elected to lead an African nation, former President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, who found herself dealing with multiple health crises when Liberia experienced an Ebola outbreak in 2014.