Christine Blasey Ford Quotes

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

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.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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.

The job of the government - and my responsibility - is to help people live healthier lives. The framework is about giving local authorities the ability to focus on the most effective ways to improve the public's health and reduce health inequalities, long-term, from cradle to grave.

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

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

The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.

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

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

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

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

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.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

I've always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this yearning for silver bullets, and that is not in fact how change comes about. Change comes through silver buckshot - a lot of little things that achieve results. That's a classic public health approach.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

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.

The objective of the World Health Organization shall be "the attainment by all peoples of highest possible level of health.

Our health care system is terribly broken… Health comes from much more than health care and health care is much more than hospitals. We do a good job on treatment and a terrible job on prevention.