For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

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.

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

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

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.