The Essence Of Global Health

For Me, An Area Of Moral Clarity Is: You're In Front Of Someone Who's Suffering And You Have The Tools At Your Disposal To Alleviate That Suffering Or Even Eradicate It, And You Act.

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.

I'm Not An Austere Person.

I Recommend The Same Therapies For All Humans With Hiv. There Is No Reason To Believe That Physiologic Responses To Therapy Will Vary Across Lines Of Class, Culture, Race Or Nationality.

Haiti Is Always Talking About Decentralization And Nothing Has Been So Obvious, Perhaps A Weakness, As The Centralized Nature Of Haitian Society As Being Revealed By The Earthquake. I Mean, They Lost All These Medical Training Programs Because They Didn't Have Them Anywhere Else.