Community Quote by Hermann Biggs

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We…

— Paul Farmer

Public health is a powerful tool to level that playing field, to bend the arc of our country away from distrust and disparities and…

— Leana S. Wen

Public health is hard. Nobody goes into it for the money or the acclaim. People work many long hours.

— Leana S. Wen

Health is a worldwide public good. It requires global action guided by a sense of global solidarity.

— Abiy Ahmed

Public health depends on winning over hearts and minds. It's not enough to just have a good policy, you have to convince people to…

— Leana S. Wen

Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of policies in…

— Radley Balko

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a…

— Herbert Hoover

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the…

— C. Everett Koop

I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.

— Jill Stein

Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people…

— Joycelyn Elders

Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.

— Vivek Murthy

“The field of public health refers to the conditions that are not medical but that can produce or undermine health as the “social determinants…

— Elizabeth H. Bradley