Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to health. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Surgeon generals are appointed by presidents, but our work isn't about politics. Our highest duty to to the public. Our true guide… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
The amount of sleep you get has an impact, not just on how you feel the next day, but it has an… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
As all of us know, health is deeply intertwined with culture: what we eat, how active we are, how much we sleep.… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
A few colleagues and I began Doctors for America with a simple belief that physicians should play a leadership role in designing… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Emotional well-being is more than the absence of a mental illness. It's that resource within each of us which allows us to… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
A prevention-based society is one in which every institution, whether they're a hospital or a clinic, or a school, an employer or… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I think of emotional well-being as a resource within each of us that allows us to do more and to perform better.… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
We can no longer remain within our exam rooms and ignore what happens in our communities. As physicians and dentists, we must… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
The surgeon general is responsible for sharing scientifically-based information with the public so that they can improve their health. But I will… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
When it comes to creating emotional wellbeing, we are only going to achieve this, I believe, if we help each other in… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
It's easy to say that health is all about personal responsibility and we should all make good decisions for ourselves, but the… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Science tells us more and more now that there is a strong connection between emotional well-being and health outcomes, and that you… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
We know that chronic loneliness has consequences. It certainly depresses our mood. And in terms of our health, people who struggle with… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that we can help increase happiness of other people by reaching out, and building connections. People have done… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I think people often forget how powerful they are. Sometimes it just takes one voice to save a life. When we speak up we… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country,… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would be spent on diabetes or heart disease or cancer. What I… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
I do not intend to use the Surgeon General's Office as a bully pulpit for gun control. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
We know that chronic loneliness has consequences. It certainly depresses our mood. And in terms of our health, people who struggle with loneliness also… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don't have strong connections and if you feel you can't… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
When people tell you that you're less-than and that you don't matter and that you're inferior, you internalize some of that. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
Service is a powerful pathway of getting out of loneliness. It takes the focus off of you and puts it onto someone else. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness:… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
I firmly believe that everybody in America needs a safe place to walk or to wheelchair roll. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share
