When asked to share his life philosophy with staff of the Task Force for Global Health in a 2018 interview, Bill Foege stated: “If you want to do important things, you work on important problems.” Clearly, he did just that. In doing so, he personified the role of a “public health trailblazer” in that he repeatedly saw the destination (“the last mile”) and then blazed a trail to reach the end of the journey.