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

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

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.

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

Equity is the only acceptable goal