We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat..

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat..

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….

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody..

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 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 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 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….

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?.

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work..

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 ….

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling..

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Hai….