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

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 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.

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

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

Equity is the only acceptable goal

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.