Occupation: Medical Anthropologist Birth: October 26, 1959
60% of workers surveyed said if their employer took action to support the mental wellbeing of all staff, they would feel more loyal, motivated, commi….
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….
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects..
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world..
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countrie….
In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur ….
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been don….
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right..
People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be..
Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are fol….
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some vict….
...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work..
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activist….
If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem..
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 ….
I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti..
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership..
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….
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right..
lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must….
What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable..