Figures quoted for the number of people in the world who are exposed to, contract, or die from malaria each year are inevitably only estimates, but this in no way 1LESS the reality of the disease. It has such a dominant and debilitating effect on huge populations, with 2FATAL (one million or more per annum) occurring most commonly in the children of the endemic regions. The situation has been worsening in recent years with the 3SEEM inexorable spread of resistance to drugs shown by the parasite and to 4INSECT by the mosquito. Clearly much effort is being directed towards the development of new and effective means of combating both parasite and mosquito but, in the 5MEAN, control must be attempted by the use of combinations of methods most 6PROPER to each situation. The First Annual Public Health Forum of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine brought together 200 experts from 54 countries. They represented every 7DISCIPLE concerned with the control of malaria and provided invaluable advice on how best to cope at the national level, the community level, and the level of the 8DIVIDE sick child or adult.