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

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

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

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