Phil Gingrey Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

I earned a Master's degree in Epidemiology from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2009.

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

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.

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

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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.

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.

The Surgeon General's job is a bully pulpit and not much else.

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.

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

[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 think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems, improving childhood immunisation through better routine immunisation and pre-emptive vaccination campaigns.

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

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

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

Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.

Accurate diagnostics are key to enabling successful public health measures.

One of my first priorities as a new member of Congress in 2019 was to visit the CDC and learn firsthand about what they needed to help protect Americans. After my visit, I learned their budget had previously been cut, and that they needed funding to modernize their data systems to help prevent pandemics and other public health crises.