Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.