Occupation: Medical Anthropologist Birth: October 26, 1959
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically..
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public heal….
We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you st….
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate ….
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right..
God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. You want to see where Christ crucified ….
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership..
If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem..
What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable..
That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people..
You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in educat….
I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the inte….
In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great….
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, th….
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can ….
I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi..
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal..
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the….
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?.
I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti..
...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work..