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

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

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 followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent.

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 done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

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

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.