Tedros Adhanom Quotes

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

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

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

The CDC has always been an example of unbiased and thorough medical research, both in America and around the world, and we must continue to provide the doctors and experts at the CDC the resources they need to help solve and prevent public health crises.

It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.

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.

It’s not the mosquitoes who spread the disease [Zika]. Mosquitoes don’t travel more than 500 yards from where they are born. It’s the people. They travel.

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

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

In 2015, El Salvador suffered nearly 50,000 cases of dengue. Cuba had 1641 cases, no deaths, and one of the lowest incidence rates in the Americas.

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

In the ongoing effort to combat Ebola, more needs to be done to rewrite the public-health narrative. It must move from one that has been infused with fear to one that recognizes the hope for survival that supportive care can offer infected people.

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

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.

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

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 started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

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.

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels hard technology, AIDS has created wartime conditions in the field of biology that will have all sorts of spin-offs.

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

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.