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.

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

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

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

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.

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

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.