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

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

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

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 when the historical record is probed carefully.

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

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