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.

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

Equity is the only acceptable goal

I'm not an austere person.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

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