The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

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.

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

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

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

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.

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.