I Feel It's Part Of My Job

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.

If You Look Just At The Decades After 1934, You Know It's Hard To Point To Really Inspired And Positive Support From Outside Of Haiti, To Haiti, And Much Easier To Point To Either Small-minded Or Downright Mean-spirited Policies.

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.

Since I Do Not Believe That There Should Be Different Recommendations For People Living In The Bronx And People Living In Manhattan, I Am Uncomfortable Making Different Recommendations For My Patients In Boston And In Haiti.

We've Taken On The Major Health Problems Of The Poorest - Tuberculosis, Maternal Mortality, Aids, Malaria - In Four Countries. We've Scored Some Victories In The Sense That We've Cured Or Treated Thousands And Changed The Discourse About What Is Possible.