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 remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

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 activists.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.

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 back capacity in the system.

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