global health Quotes

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.

The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve... ...

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Whenever you have a few setbacks, the idea that half as many children are dying now as back in 1990 and so... it was over 12 million a year, now it's less than 6 million a year. We have a... ...