Health, a universal human value, transcends geo-political boundaries, provides an unassailable basis for improving human and international relationships, and is critical in controlling population overgrowth while maintaining human dignity.
Diseases of poverty demand the attention and cooperation of the entire world community.
Our common humanity requires that our resources be directed at preserving and enhancing life wherever it is endangered, and poverty increases the frequency and severity of disease. Moreover, our common humanity is biological as well as ethical, and diseases of the poor can and do become diseases of the rich. In a shrinking world, to seek health behind barricades is not only selfish, it is bad science. Building on existing strengths locally and internationally, the Center for Global Health will be dedicated to alleviating diseases of poverty. The diseases of the disadvantaged in our midst and around the world are costly threats to us all.