I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct ….

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get ….

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects..

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country..

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 ….

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….

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me..

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….

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….

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering o….

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi..

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health..

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right..

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory..

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….

Equity is the only acceptable goal.

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda..

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complic….

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world..

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some vict….

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be..