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I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries. -- Michael Porter
I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health. -- Lois Capps
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. -- Paul Farmer
After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California -- Jerry Brown
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet. -- Julie Bishop
It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem. -- Jim Ramstad
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service. -- Harold E. Varmus
Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness. -- Andrew Weil
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. -- Gwen Moore
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. -- Anna Quindlen
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing. -- Diane Abbott
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue. -- Mandy Patinkin
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin. -- Lucille Roybal-Allard
Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time -- C. Everett Koop
Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health. -- Michael Pollan
[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand. -- Greg Gutfeld
I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety. -- Erin Brockovich
Individuals can make choices about their own health treatments, but it is critical public health decisions are evidence based and that consumers have appropriate evidence based information about alternative health products. -- Metiria Turei
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program. -- Louise Slaughter
"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem. -- Jimmy Carter
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness. -- Herbert Hoover
It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children. -- Nelson Mandela
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance. -- Jamie Oliver
We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue. -- Sarah Brady
You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education. -- Paul Farmer
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. -- Neal Barnard
Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's services destroyed, they hate public health. -- Laurie Garrett
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century. -- Kenneth Frampton
What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my book. It's a trust between the government and the people. -- Laurie Garrett
Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority. -- Lucille Roybal-Allard
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. -- Paul Farmer
If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard. -- Nathan Deal
Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you. -- David D. Burns
True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it. -- Ban Ki-moon
The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money. -- Eula Biss
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. -- Jeff Goodell
I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile. -- Patch Adams
We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place. -- Andrew Lansley
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals. -- Lysander Spooner
The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already in the States, it was in Mexico, it was in New Zealand. By the time it reaches that point, you've lost the ability to contain it. -- Nathan Wolfe
Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge. -- Anthony Fauci
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
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. -- Paul Farmer
Handguns are a public-health problem. -- Josh Sugarmann
Handguns are a public health issue. -- Joycelyn Elders
Whatever concerns health is of real public interest. -- Elie Metchnikoff
It's critically important that people trust you during a public health crisis. -- Richard E. Besser
Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency. -- Michael Marmot
City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure. -- L. Neil Smith
Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health. -- Rand Paul
The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity. -- Michael Moore
For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures. -- Charles Duhigg
Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health. -- Arthur Caplan
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu. -- Lois Capps
Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries. -- Barton Gellman
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should. -- Samuel Wilson
I have no faith in the USA corporate government systems of protection of public health and safety. -- Steven Magee
I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country. -- Jill Stein
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption. -- Jim Hightower
Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all? -- Kurt Vonnegut
Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health. -- Hermann Biggs
Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures. -- Anthony S. Fauci
I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around. -- Cynthia Dill
Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance. -- Bill Dedman
Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit. -- Sarah Palin
I only wish my health issues to be open to the public in the hope that I can educate others. -- Renee Sloan
I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective. -- Mireille Guiliano
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. -- Thomas Jefferson
The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world. -- Margaret Chan
From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree. -- Hugh Hammond Bennett
I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance. -- Tommy Douglas
Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health. -- Narendra Modi
We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare. -- Wendy Kopp
Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less. -- Jerrold Nadler
In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year. -- Jan Schakowsky
I don't believe in all this public-funded health care, we can't afford it. If you want health care, you pay for it. -- Rob Ford
A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care. -- Diana DeGette
I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea. -- Rand Paul
We know there is real interest from the American public in having easy access to the new, affordable choices in the Health Insurance Marketplace. -- Todd Park
From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question. -- Marion Nestle
Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict. -- Widad Akrawi
Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa. -- Liya Kebede
Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy. -- Richard Louv
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion. -- Bart Stupak
We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger. -- Hillary Clinton
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward. -- Jack Layton
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world. -- Julie Bishop
It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population. -- William J. Clinton
Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity. -- David W. Orr
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics. -- Mark Dayton
Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service. -- Michael Gove
If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic,. -- Julie Gerberding
We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture. -- Wayne Pacelle
We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury. -- Andrew von Eschenbach
We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health. -- Michael Marmot
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. -- Ashley Montagu
UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing. -- Andy Stern
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts? -- Sarah Wollaston
One of the mysteries of hep B immunization is that vaccinating only 'high risk' groups, which was the original public health strategy, did not bring down rates of infection. -- Eula Biss
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us? Brought peace! -- Graham Chapman
Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life. -- Matt Cartwright
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution. -- Jeff Goodell
The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on. -- Jose Ramos-Horta
Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure. -- Cynthia Kauffman
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare. -- Steven Hatfill
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system. -- Cliff Stearns
For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith. -- Paul A. Offit
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one. -- Larry Kramer
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The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health. -- David Reuben
Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking. -- Rick Rollens
People rarely die from heroin alone, it's the combination that's deadly. Maybe we should blast that out as a public health education message. That way at least we're keeping people safe. -- Carl Hart
Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board. -- Dan Harris
Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now. -- Michael Bloomberg
You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system. -- Paul Farmer
There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. -- Jonathan Safran Foer

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