Dr. Sullen when did you decide you are going to become a medical doctor . By the age of five. My father who was a funeral director in southwest georgia and among other Things Services for people who needed to be transported to doctors. My father would often ask me to go with him to help because at age five i was curious. There was one black doctor in southwest georgia 40 miles south of brinkley where he lived so high, from age five was determined i want to be like dr. Griffin. An africanamerican physician. He was very successful and highly respected in the community. People really thought he was a great citizen but to me he was a magician. He could make people well. I decided that was what i wanted to do so thats what i decided at age five. I love science and i love working with people so being a doctor combines both of those very well. Host southwest georgia in the air you were growing up what were some of the race considerations that you had to face . Guest they were very difficult. My father was an activist. He started a chapter 4 the naacp in blakely in 1937. My mother was a schoolteacher and as a result of my fathers activism the 20 years they have lived there my mother never got a job in blakely teaching school. She had to drive 20 to 30 miles away to other towns where she worked as a teacher. But in addition to starting the naacp chapter he worked to really work against the white primary that i excluded black children from participating established and emancipation day celebration. My parents sent me and my brother back to atlanta to attend school because schools for blacks and segregated rural georgia back in the 30s and 40s really were not very good. But all of that was a great imprint on me because my parents were committed to my brother and myself getting a good education. I finished high school in atlanta and went on to Morehouse College in atlanta and went to University Medical school. The year graduated in 1954 it was brown versus board of education came out of the supreme court. When i graduated from college i could not go to medical school in georgia so i went to boston university. That was my First Experience of 1954 when i went to boston. My First Experience leading in a non segregated society. I wonder how my classmates would accept me as well as the faculty at the bottom line is accepted without any problems whatsoever. At a great experience there and it became quest president finished third in my class and one on two cornell and harvard. I ended up on the faculty at bu. In 1975 my alma mater and i founded the morehouse school. That led to my meeting Vice President george bush in the building we constructed back in july of 1982. That is done very well and i lobbied for him who i thought would be a great secretary. They turned the tables on me and he asked me me to Service Secretary so thats how i became secretary of health and human services. Host what do you consider your biggest accomplishment during your tenure at hhs . Guest raging the war against tobacco use because tobacco tobacco use then and today still is the number one preventable cause of death. I have never smoked and i have had nothing against executives in the Tobacco Industry except their product kills people. As a physician and the Health Secretary my responsibilities to do everything i can to protect the health of the american people. So we were very successful. We waged an effort against r. J. Reynolds when they were in january of 1990 when they were going to introduce a new cigarette in philadelphia called uptown. So happened that the time i was speaking at the university of pennsylvania and my speech really included an attack against r. J. Reynolds in producing the sun filtered mentholated cigarette. They surprise me because two weeks later they announced they were not proceeding with this new cigarette that they were going to test market. Some other things im proud of is introducing a new food label to let people know more about the foods they are eating and the impact they have and thirdly introducing more diversity into the department. The first woman to head the National Institute of health is still the only woman dr. Bernadine healy that i recommended for her appointment. And Social SecurityGwendolyn King was someone i help so i wanted to take the culture of the department. I think we succeeded in that. Host in a quick few minutes with former hhs secretary dr. Louis sullivan, breaking ground as the name of his autobiography my life in medicine and the forward is by and were young. You are watching booktv on cspan. The name of the book is the malaria project in the author is karen masterson. What is malaria . Guest malaria is a series of diseases. Its not one disease. Its many diseases caused by several parasites and these different parasites are found in different parts of the world but they all cause symptoms like intense fever, furnace hot fevers and chills and body pains and headaches. Sometimes it will hide in your liver and you never know whether you have gotten rid of it. It can clump together and cause circulatory problems and put you in a coma. You are fine at 5 in the morning and by the evening you are dead. So the malaria is the word we use to describe the diseases that are caused by this genus of disease and parasites. Host how many types. Host how many typesetter would you say . Guest there is a monkey malaria that is jumping species. It will likely