Scott Gottlieb Quotes

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

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

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

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.

Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

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.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

Unequal development in different countries in the promotion of health and control of disease, especially communicable disease, is a common danger.

Unfortunately, infectious diseases don’t pay much attention to budget cycles.

We can't predict when infectios diseases will break out, but their breakout is inevitable. That is why we must be prepared.

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

Society does not seem prepared to accept the sacrifices required for an effective prevention of cancer.

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

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

Over the years, I have worked on programs in Africa and around the globe to combat malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV. I have been witness to incredible progress in these fights.

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.

Ensuring investment in health systems will not only help us manage HIV/AIDS, it will also support our efforts to prevent and treat other communicable and noncommunicable diseases as well as prevent and respond to future health emergencies.

I speak often about my personal experiences with malaria in the field as a young public health officer because it had such a profound impact on my life and my work.

Issues like obesity do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.