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Public Health Quotes

Health policy, spoken plainly by people who study it.

One speaker traces their interest back to HIV and malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, while another draws a blunt comparison between meat consumption and tobacco. See more accountability angles in Responsibility quotes.

In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

Quotes by Uzodinma Iweala

We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.

Quotes by Tedros Adhanom

I did all kind of jobs to sustain myself. I worked at a grocery store, in the public health department, and what was then Thomas Cook and Sons. The last job was particularly interesting, but I got fired from it.

Quotes by Ruskin Bond

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.

Quotes by Paul Farmer

Care Quotes

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

Quotes by Neal Barnard

It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.

Quotes by Mark Walport

The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.

Quotes by M. S. Swaminathan

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

Quotes by Lucille Roybal-Allard

Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

Quotes by Lionel Shriver

Emotion Quotes

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Quotes by Larry Kramer

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Quotes by L. Neil Smith

I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.

Quotes by Kate Brown

Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.

Quotes by Chuck Norris

For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures.

Quotes by Charles Duhigg

Identity Quotes

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

Quotes by Anne Wojcicki

I've noticed that every public health minister has been a woman.

Quotes by Anna Soubry

We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.

Quotes by Andrew von Eschenbach

Frequently Asked Questions

What issues do these Public Health quotes cover?
They span HIV and malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, the health risks of meat consumption compared to tobacco, industrial air quality rules, and the reach of modern health emergencies.
Why is meat consumption compared to tobacco use here?
The speaker argues meat consumption carries public health risks serious enough to warrant the same legal accountability historically applied to tobacco and fast-food industries.
Is there a quote about air pollution regulation?
Yes, one speaker expresses concern that federal and state air quality programs fail to properly weigh public health when regulating industrial emissions.
What does the quote about global health emergencies mean?
It points out that in an increasingly connected world, a public health emergency in one place can quickly affect people almost anywhere else, not just the region where it starts.
Any pages that pick up this accountability theme further?
See Responsibility quotes for accountability themes, or Care quotes for a gentler perspective on looking after others.

A regulator worries that air quality rules ignore health outcomes altogether, and a closing line reminds us that public health emergencies now reach anyone, anywhere. Continue with Care quotes or Identity quotes.