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

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.

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.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

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