Sudha Murty Quotes

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

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.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Health is more than the absence of disease…It is also education….We have a health illiterate society.

[Public Health] means the saving and lengthening of lives of thousands of citizens, the extension of the vigorous working period well into old age, and the prevention of inefficiency, misery, and suffering. These advances can be made by organized social effort. Public health is purchasable.

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

My philanthropy is largely focused on healthcare, and I really want to make a difference to people's lives.

Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.

Well, the responsibility of the surgeon general is to make sure that the public has access to science and access to it in a way that is understandable and that is applicable to their everyday lives.

Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.

My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on.

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.