
In the 1930s, the Colombian government implemented the Healthy Child Contest aimed to guarantee the future of the “race” and the nation.
Images and documents include research on Hookworm disease in South America, 1920-1927, the fight against Yellow Fever and Malaria in Brazil, 1928-1942, papers on World War II typhus fever and Malaria in the Mediterranean, and documents related Soper’s work at the Pan American Health Organisation, 1947-1959.