I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

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

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

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.