Public Health Quotes

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.

Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

Despite 4, 000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.

Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.

In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.

In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.

If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years.

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.

It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5, 000 years.

He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.

It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results.

Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.