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Alice Ball: Pioneer in Leprosy Treatment

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Alice Augusta Ball

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A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit

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Alice Ball was the first woman and first African American to earn a master’s degree in science from the College of Hawaii in 1915 .

She discovered chaulmoogra oil, a treatment for leprosy, in the 1920s .

The oil, derived from the seeds of the chauloogra tree, was the most effective treatment for the disease until the introduction of sulfones in 1940s .

In 2022 , then-Gov. David Ige declared Feb. 28 Alice Augusta Ball Day in Hawaii .

The Ball Method represents both a scientific achievement and a history of marginalization.

It was only fitting that the ceremony took place on the Mnoa campus in the shade of the chaulmoogra tree.

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