Exhibition 'Caribbean ties: Connected people, then and now'. The exhibition (free entry) is open on weekdays until 20 May and can be visited at Oude UB, Rapenburg 70, Leiden.

This paper introduces my new research project Histories of Health Messaging in Southeast Asia, 1895 – 1945. It offers a brief overview of health messaging as a new public health practice that developed around 1900 and seeks to illustrate it with a case study on yaws control in rural Java