I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

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.

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.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

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

I'm not an austere person.