The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.

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

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

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money