Lucy McBath Quotes

I'm for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

As director of the CDC, one of the best parts of my job is announcing good news.

I contracted malaria while working in the field. That was the impetus for me to pursue a doctorate in community health. As a young academic, I investigated the patterns of malaria's spread and the potential measures we could employ to control it.

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier; it makes the world healthier. It makes the economy healthier.

CDC is supporting community efforts by establishing competitive grants to support local programs to help individuals and families to get healthy and stay healthy.

At CDC, we work 24/7 to save lives and protect people.

The fight against HIV/AIDS cannot be won unless countries take ownership of protecting and supporting the health of communities both near and far.

I think Tom Frieden, the CDC director, is a good man, is a good doctor and, I think, basically has done a good job.

It's now evident that public health is part of national security.

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

I definitely want to study global health. Right now I'm working on all the prerequisite core curriculum that Columbia has. So getting all of that out of the way. And I definitely want to pursue something along the lines of public health.

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.