Global Health Quotes

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

  Paul Farmer

  Essence, Ideas, Might

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Fitness, Real

  "Spiritual Wealth Management: The Abundance Bible and Prosperity Manifesto". Book by George S. Mentz (p. 114), September 1, 2012.

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• 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

  Fighting, People, Water

  "GDP Not Good Enough: The Need for a New Metric for Growth in a Changing World" by Pallavi Roy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2016.

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Motivational, Fitness, Freedom

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

  Kris Carr

  Thinking, Crisis, Capable

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

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• 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

  Issues, Water, Empowerment

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

  Ban Ki-moon

  Fighting, People, Growth

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

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• 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

  Funny, Witty, Inspirational Life

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.9, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Successful, Vaccines, Bucks

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

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

  Paul Farmer

  Teaching, Missing, Research

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

  Adelle Davis

  Motivational, Health, Two

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

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

  Jim Yong Kim

  Water, Champion, Kind

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

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• 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

  Health, Past, Organization

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• 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

  Hero, Class, People

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Believe, Bills

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• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Recovery, Tired, Health

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

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

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, Years, Childhood

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• 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

  Marketing, Needs, Cost

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Organization, Phones, People

  "U.S. Foreign Health Investments Improve Lives Abroad — And Here at Home" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

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• 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

  Loss, Rights, Ecosystems

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• 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

  People, Birth Control, Agendas

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• Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

  William Foege

  Problem, Health Problems

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• 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

  Health, Government, People

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• 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

  Opportunity, Epidemics, Ebola

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