It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

If we succeed in learning more about how to expand program innovations from pilot projects so that they have broader program impact, this should be very relevant for public health initiatives in Michigan and elsewhere in the US.

We hope to organize team residencies and a conference bringing together professionals from Latin America and from other groups around the world who are also focusing on this issue. We want to bring them together so we can learn from each other, and then widely publicize our conclusions.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.