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Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems. -- William Foege
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. -- Jim Yong Kim
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. -- Paul Farmer
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
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
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
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
We are more capable of turning around our global health crisis than we think. -- Kris Carr
I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce. -- Margaret Chan
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved. -- Melinda Gates
The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health. -- Paul Farmer
I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country. -- Thomas R. Insel
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
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
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
I believe that international support through critical funds, together with the determination of my compatriots, Malawi can be a model country for meeting global health targets and get on with the business of African-driven global economic growth. -- Joyce Banda
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
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
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
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
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
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth. -- Malvinder Mohan Singh
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina McCarthy
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children. -- Carol Bellamy
Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern. -- Bill Drayton
I definitely want to study global health. Right now I'm working on all the prerequisite core curriculum that Columbia has. So getting all of that out of the way. And I definitely want to pursue something along the lines of public health. -- Kelsey Chow
Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted. -- Martin Rees
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
What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering. -- Paul Farmer
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost. -- Seth Berkley
In many ways, human health is the great global connector. -- Kathleen Sebelius
Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness. -- Jerry Costello
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. -- Jeff Merkley
Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute. -- Jessica Capshaw
Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family. -- Kathleen Sebelius
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own. -- Diane Ackerman
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question. -- Roger Mahony
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy. -- John Conyers
Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from. -- Geoffrey West
Globally, millions of married men and women engage the servicesof sex workers each year. Despite growing health concerns aboutthe increased risk of STDs and HIV AIDS this trade continues toblossom, leading to the premature termination of several lives andthe dissolution of several marriages. -- Oche Otorkpa
We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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
Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to. -- Ilchi Lee
The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global -- Marilynne Robinson
Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act. -- Eliot Spitzer
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
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina McCarthy
Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is. -- Rush Limbaugh

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