Tracy Kidder (Soul Of A New Machine) wrote a fantastic book about some of the epidemiologists who have been working for the past few decades on the problem, but

Tracy Kidder (Soul Of A New Machine) wrote a fantastic book about some of the epidemiologists who have been working for the past few decades on the problem, but from the POV of a sociologist. The book is "Mountains Beyond Mountains", and mainly focuses on Paul Farmer from Partners In Health.