Sub-Saharan Africa has 24% of the global disease burden, yet only 3% of the world’s health care workers.

– Mitchell Besser, HIV AIDS Activist

Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities.

– Dayna Bowen Matthew, Professor of Law and Public Health Sciences

Home care is the only publicly funded health service where care is provided based on hard financial caps and arbitrary limits rather than medical need.

– André Picard, Canadian Journalist

Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that made them sick?

– Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology & Author

If girls commit to an active lifestyle in their teenage years, they are more likely to continue to be active in adulthood.

– Claudine Labelle, FitSpirit President and Founder

The sexual and reproductive health and rights agenda is also the equality agenda of this century.

– Sivananthi Thanenthiran, Writer & Feminist

Solving our region’s biggest health challenges can only be achieved by innovative African-led solutions, which combine global and local frameworks.

– Ritgak Tilley-Gyado, Physician & Anthropologist

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.

– Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Activist & Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.

– Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Former Prime Minister of Iceland

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

– John Dewey, American Philosopher and Psychologist

You can resurrect an economy, but you can’t resurrect a person.

– Dr. Orrett Thane, Deputy Head of the General Practice, Cayman Islands

The world is slowly transforming into the vaccine haves and the vaccine have nots… This inequity is not just a moral failure but a scientific failure.

– Professor Madhukar Pai, Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health

In every part of the world, we are seeing that COVID has worsened the plight of at-risk women and girls, while also hindering criminal justice responses and reducing support to victims.

– Ghada Waly, UNODC Executive Director

To be horrified by inequality and early death and not have any kind of plan for responding – that would not work for me.

– Dr. Paul Farmer, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

To end preventable child deaths from malnutrition, we need a targeted approach focused on the world’s food and health systems working together.

– Blythe Thomas, Initiative Director at 1,000 Days

Vaccine nationalism is not just morally indefensible. It is epidemiologically self-defeating and clinically counterproductive.

– Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization

There is no one size that fits all. There is no one size that fits all. We must work country by country, region by region, community by community, to ensure the diversity of needs are addressed to support each reality.

– Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, UN