Global Health Quotes:

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

- William Foege

topic: Problem, Global Health, Health Problems

We are more capable of turning around our global health crisis than we think.

- Kris Carr

source: "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Crisis, Global Health

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

- Ban Ki-moon

source: "To End Poverty, Act on Climate" by Kathy Calvin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

topic: Fighting, People, Water, Solutions To Poverty, Economic Climate

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Freedom, World Health, Global Health

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Fitness, Inspirational Health, Inspirational Health And Fitness

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Real, Health, Healthy Living, Spiritual Health

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

- Paul Farmer

topic: Ideas, Essence, Might, Global Health

Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: Issues, Water, Empowerment, Global Health

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

- Ban Ki-moon

source: "To End Poverty, Act on Climate" by Kathy Calvin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

topic: Solutions To Poverty, Economic Climate, Economic Empowerment, Global Health, Global Poverty

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Witty, Inspirational Life, Inspirational Health, Motivational Health

The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.

- Seth Berkley

source: "Vaccines: The Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global Health" by Seth Berkley, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

topic: Successful, Vaccines, Bucks, Global Health, Return On Investment

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

- Adelle Davis

source: Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

topic: Health, Two, Disease, Inspirational Health, Global Health

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

- Paul Farmer

topic: Teaching, Missing, Research, Global Health

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

- Jim Yong Kim

source: "Climate change will 'lead to battles for food', says head of World Bank" by Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2014.

topic: Water, Champion, Kind, Sanitation, Global Health

If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.

- Bill Gates

source: Source: www.geekwire.com

topic: Global Health

We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it's so important to render its structures more efficient.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Health, Past, Organization, Global Health, Health Issues

Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Bills, Global Health, Health Problems

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

- Fannie Lou Hamer

source: "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

topic: Tired, Sick, Being Sick, Big Book, Just For Today

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

- Bill Gates

source: Source: www.geekwire.com

topic: Global Health

To improve global health, it's not enough just to have a really good new product and to obtain marketing approval. You still need to market the product and bring it to patients, follow up, create the infrastructure, and so on - the whole pipeline, the network. That's something that companies are extremely good at: organizing a whole pipeline in a cost-effective way.

- Thomas Pogge

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Marketing, Needs, Cost, Global Health

I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.

- Mandy Moore

topic: Organization, Phones, People, Malaria, Mobile Phones

Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.

- Widad Akrawi

topic: Loss, Rights, Ecosystems, Peace Building, Global Health

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

- Melinda Gates

topic: People, Birth Control, Agendas, South Asia, Sub Saharan Africa

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

- Mandy Moore

topic: Children, Years, Pneumonia, Malaria, Measles

Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Health, Government, People, Darfur, World Health

It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.

- Tom Frieden

topic: Opportunity, Epidemics, Ebola, Spiraling Out Of Control, Global Health

The Catholic community, with many others, has long worked for this new commitment on global health and debt relief (President George W. Bushs proposed $15 billion Global AIDS initiative). I hope that Congress will now appropriate the money needed to make this legislation a reality, and that the U.S. government will press for strengthening the debt relief program along the lines proposed by this legislation.

- John Ricard

topic: Commitment, Reality, Government, Global Health, Strengthening

The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

- Bill Gates

topic: Global Health

I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce.

- Margaret Chan

source: "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

topic: Emergencies, Establishment, Workforce, Overseeing, Global Health

I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.

- Bill Gates

topic: Thinking, Issues, People, Highlighting, Global Health

The president recognizes that funding global health is good for national security, domestic health and global diplomacy. Consequently, President Obama has steadily increased funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which was created by President Bush and has strong bipartisan support.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

source: "The HIV/AIDS Fight Needs Cooperation, Not Division" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2010.

topic: Strong, Support, President, Global Health, Bipartisan

Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in particular. We're now a part of the East Asia Summit and we have a strategic partnership with Asean. At the US-Asean Leaders Summit I hosted earlier this year in Sunnylands, California, we agreed to a set of principles that will shape the future peace and prosperity of the region, from promoting innovation and furthering economic integration to addressing transnational challenges like global health security and climate change.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.straitstimes.com

topic: Past, Eight, Years, East Asia, Economic Integration

For decades we have been living lives of abundance, with little regard for our natural resources or global health. But we are now facing hard choices in our energy policy. Future generations - my children and grandchildren, along with yours - will have to live with the decisions we make today. And so it is time for us to make some tough and - hopefully - smart choices regarding our energy use and production before it is too late.

- John McCain

topic: Children, Smart, Live Life, Productions, Energy Policy