Occupation: Medical Anthropologist Birth: October 26, 1959
You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build ….
I'm not an austere person..
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 you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and ….
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….
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….
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortab….
The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money.
WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for….
I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure tha….
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right..
I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that..
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….
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically..
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….
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..