When I first journeyed to Japan as a Rotary exchange student in 1986, I could never have imagined that I would find myself 25 years later gazing upon the Tokyo Tower with several hundred Rotarians and global health leaders to mark a relatively unknown day on the calendar—October 24, a.k.a. World Polio Day.

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World Polio Day is simultaneously a celebration and a call to action. It’s a celebration because in the past 20 years, polio cases are down 99 percent, thanks to one of the most ambitious global health campaigns in history.

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If anyone understands mosquitoes and summer heat, it’s Texans like me. As summer comes to a close, many of us here in the United States are counting (and complaining about) our many mosquito bites. But what many Americans don’t realize is that in countries like Cameroon, a mosquito bite isn’t just itchy -- it’s potentially deadly.

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Over the past decade, the story of despair and suffering that once defined malaria has been replaced by one of health and hope. We’re no longer fighting a losing battle. Every day we gain new ground in the effort to prevent and cure the disease, one of the biggest killers of young children in poor and developing countries. In fact, we are working to eliminate malaria in endemic countries by 2015.

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I'm half way across the world, and today I am reminded of one of the many things that connects us. It's the hope that any parent in LA or DC or Yaounde has: that their child will have a better life than they do.

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