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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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