Equity is the only acceptable goal

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

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.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

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

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.