“Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adver...”

“The United States has made remarkable progress in reducing both teen pregnancy and racial and ethnic differences, but the reality is, too many American teens are still having babies.”

“Too many U.S. adults have a heart age years older than their real age, increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke. Everybody deserves to be young - or at least not old - at heart.”

“Pregnant women who are in places where Zika is spreading should do everything they can to avoid mosquito bites. And we, as a society, need to do everything we can to control Zika. That means learni...”

“I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.”

“Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.”

“Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user'...”

“Organization takes the fun out of everything.”

“Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness.”

“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional”

“Between the lines thoughts were felt. In a way words could never read.”