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

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

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

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

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

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